Crossword-Solution: GUJRAT 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Once, at the time of the Sikh insurrection, the Dost crossed the Indian border with two thousand horsemen, and narrowly escaped falling into the hands of the British in the affair of Gujrat, February 21, 1849, where the speed of his horse alone saved him from capture.

The Insurrection at Mooltan--Murder of Agnew and Anderson--Herbert Edwardes's great achievement--A guide or two with nerves of steel--Siege of Mooltan--Guides capture twelve guns--Ressaldar Fatteh Khan, Khuttuk--His historic charge--With seventy men routs a brigade--Arrival of Bombay troops--Mooltan stormed and taken--Lumsden attacks and annihilates Ganda Singh's force--Battle of Gujrat--Pursuit of the Sikhs--End of Second Sikh War 18 CHAPTER III.

These services performed the Guides turned back, and hastening northwards arrived in the camp of the Grand Army in time to take part in the crowning and decisive victory of Gujrat.

From 1846 he renewed his policy of hostility to the British and allied himself with the Sikhs; but after the defeat of his allies at Gujrat on the 21st of February 1849 he abandoned his designs and led his troops back into Afghanistan.

One recension of the sacred volume preserved at Mangat in the Gujrat district contains a hymn composed by Mira Bai, queen of Chitor.