CHILLIANWALLA

CHILLIANWALLA
   a village in the Punjab, 80 m. NW. of Lahore, the scene in 1849 of a bloody battle in the second Sikh War, in which the Sikhs were defeated by Gen. Gough; it was also the scene of a battle between Alexander the Great and Porus.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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