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Treaty of Amritsar, (April 25, 1809), pact concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab. The treaty settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation. The immediate occasion was the French threat to northwestern India, following Napoleon’s Treaty of Tilsit with Russia (1807) and Ranjit’s attempt to bring the Cis-Sutlej states under his control. The British wanted a defensive treaty against the French and control of Punjab to the Sutlej River. Although this was not a defensive treaty, it did fix the frontier of lands controlled by Ranjit broadly along the line of the Sutlej River. Metcalfe’s mission gave Ranjit much respect for the company’s disciplined troops as well as the determination never to cross swords with the British troops. Ranjit’s further conquests were to the west and north. Permission required to quote this treaty in an aricle i am writing for a non profit educationall purpose.Ty

CONTRIBUTION OF SIKH SOLDIERS TO THE               BRITISH EMPIRE FOR 100 YEARS (1846 to 1947) ANGLO SIKH HISTORY (including Anglo Sikh wars) Aim: To Remember and Pay Homage by erecting a Memorial Statue for ALL Sikh Soldiers, at an appropriate place, who fought under extensive fire power in the trenches of Western Europe where some of them laid their lives holding on to their Turbans and the Sri Guru Granth Sahib as Symbols of Faith

FINAL WORKING COPY NOT YET IN PUBLIC DOMAIN Sikh Soldiers marching with Sri Guru Granth Sahib (sacred book) in the desert of Mesopotamia (Iraq) 1918                               Dr Darminder Singh chadha

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