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Battle of Ferozepore
- Death of Major Broadfoot
The Illustrated London
News 28/2/1846
"It was generally held by the English in India that
Major Broadfoot's appointment as Agent in Oct., 1844 greatly
increased the probabilities of a war with the Sikhs, and
the impression was equally strong, that had Mr. Clerk, for
instance, remained as agent, there would have been no war."
- J.D. Cunningham, A History of the Sikhs
"Several accounts agree that in the period immediately
preceding the war when matters were becoming very serious
and (Sikh) army had for the most part taken affairs into
their own hands, they maintained for a while wonderful order
at Lahore and through their punches exercised an almost
puritanical discipline in the military republic. The immediate
collision was, however, I think hastened by imprudence on
the part of the British Frontier Agent Major Broadfoot.
I knew of some things done by him which it would be difficult
to defend. But he paid the penalty by his death in the actions
which followed." said George Campbell - Ganda Singh,
The British Occupation of the Punjab.
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