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Great Battles Aliwal 1846

01 THE BRITISH ADVANCE

The British deploy into line and marched steadily towards the Sikhs. Colonel James Robertson of the 31st Regiment described the battlefield as “a magnificent flat plain, extending for miles in the direction of the enemy’s entrenched camp”.

02 THE VILLAGE OF ALIWAL

The British commander,

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