Khalanga Campaign -10
Anglo Nepalese War with Reference to Gurkha Rule over Uttarakhand & Himachal -60
History of Gorkha /Nepal Rule over Kumaun, Garhwal and Himachal (1790-1815) -179
History of Uttarakhand (Garhwal, Kumaon and Haridwar) -702
British Army camped at Khurbura Ground on 21st October 1814 at around four o clock. After Army camping, Colonel Maubi went towards Khalanga Garhi on horse for inspecting the situation. His path finder and path guides reached near Khalanga after walking five miles from Khurbura. It was evening and they could not watch Garhi clearly. They came to know that still the fort building work was on in Garhi. Colonel Maubi was sure that it was easy to capture the Khalanga Fort.
After reaching back to the Camp, colonel Maubi wrote a letter for Balbhadra and sent the letter with his official messenger. Jeewan Singh was the path guide for messengers. Colonel requested to surrender without any bloodshed.
The messengers reached Khalanga Garhi at mid night. As per folk story (John Premble), Balbhadra did not read the letter and tore the letter before messengers and told that there was no custom of opening the letter and replying letter at mid night. Balbhadra sent message for Colonel Maubi that he (Balbhadra) would meet Colonel at Maubi’s camp.
Re Inspection of Khalanga Garhi
Next morning, colonel Maubi and his associates again visited Khalanga hills. Maubi was afraid in forest road that hiding in shrubs Gurkha soldiers would attack them. Colonel inspected the Garhi with finer details. He made decision to attack Garhi with full force.
On the same night (22nd October 1814), the battalion of colonel carpenter also reached to Khurbura. Now, Maubi had 13000 artery soldiers and 300 cavalry.
Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti Mumbai, India, bckukreti@gmail.com30/8/2015
History of Garhwal – Kumaon-Haridwar (Uttarakhand, India) to be continued… Part -703
*** History of Gorkha/Gurkha /Nepal Rule over Kumaun, Garhwal and Himachal (1790-1815) to be continued in next chapter
(The History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar write up is aimed for general readers)
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