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True Valor
The fort held. The Afghans retreated with none of their objectives met. And still, everyone who fought there remembers it as a loss, because the one man whose name had kept that frontier quiet for twenty years didn't walk away from it.
He knew he was dying, and the last order he gave was that no one should be told.
Hari Singh was born at Gujranwala in 1791, to Gurdial Singh and Dharam Kaur.
An Uppal Khatri family, from Majitha near Amritsar.
They were not new to this. His people had been Sikhs for generations.
And they had fought in earlier campaigns against Mughal and Afghan power. Under the Sukerchakia chiefs. The line that gave the Punjab Ranjit Singh. His father died in 1798, when Hari Singh was seven, and his mother raised him.
In 1801, aged ten, he took Amrit and was brought into the Khalsa. Not a change of faith, but a carrying on of one.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.