With the conquest of Attock, the adjoining regions of Hazara-i-Karlugh and Gandhgarh became tributary to the Sikhs. Besides Hari Singh Nalwa, Hukam Singh Attariwala, Shyamu Singh, Khalsa Fateh Singh Ahluwalia and Behmam Singh Malliawala actively participated in this battle. This battle was fought and won by the Sikhs on the banks of the Indus under the leadership of Dewan Mokham Chand, Maharaja Ranjit Singh's general, against Wazir Fatteh Khan and his brother Dost Mohammad Khan, on behalf of Shah Mahmud of Kabul. In the early 19th century, Afghan appointees of the Kingdom of Kabul held this fort, as they did most of the territory along this frontier. The fort of Attock was a major replenishment point for all armies crossing the Indus. The twenty major battles of Hari Singh Nalwa (either participated or was in command): Whether he was by that time already serving in the military is unknown but he was commissioned as Sardar, commanding 800 horses and footmen, in that year. His fellow hunters attempted to protect him but he refused their offers and allegedly killed the tiger by himself bare handedly by tearing the tiger apart from its mouth, thus earning the cognomen Baghmar ( Tiger-killer). Military career ĭuring a hunt in 1804, a tiger attacked him and also killed his horse. Hari Singh had two wives, as customary at the time, Raj Kaur from Rawalpindi and Desan Kaur. Ranjit Singh gave him a position at the court as a personal attendant. Hari Singh had explained that his father and grandfather had served under Maha Singh and Charat Singh, the Maharaja's ancestors, and demonstrated his skills as a horseman and musketeer. Ranjit Singh decided the arbitration in his favor because of his background and aptitude. In 1804, at the age of fourteen, his mother sent him to the court of Ranjit Singh to resolve a property dispute. At the age of twelve, he began to manage his father's estate and took up horse riding. In 1801, at the age of ten, he took Amrit Sanchar and was initiated as a Khalsa. After his father died in 1798, he was raised by his mother. Hari Singh Nalwa was born in Gujranwala, in the Majha region of Punjab to Dharam Kaur and Gurdial Singh Uppal, in a Khatri origin family of Uppal tribe. 2.10.2 Dost Mohammad Khan withdraws (1835).2.8 Battle of Nowshera (Naushehra) (1823).2.4.3 Kashmir becomes a part of the Punjab (1819).2.4.2 Mitha Tiwana becomes his jagir (1818).2.4.1 Peshawar becomes tributary (1818).2.3.1 Abortive attempt on Kashmir (1814).
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