Amar Singh Thapa was the General of the Nepalese forces of western front in the Anglo-Nepalese War. He is regarded as one of the National heroes of Nepal. The Gurkha War (1814-1816), also known as the Anglo-Nepalese War, was fought between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Nepal. ... National heroes of Nepal (Nepal ko Rastriya Bibhuti haru in Nepali) is a list of be it range to the ancient or medieval ages,who were selected to their ranks posthumously by a commission headed by famous liteurate Bal Krishna Sum and appointed by the king Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah...
Served as the Nepalese care taker of the western principalities and protectorates west of the Mahakali River.
Carried out small wars, especially with King of Punjab, Ranjit Singh engaged in defending the western fronts of Nahan, Chamba, Almora, Kangra, Saharanpur, Dehradun against his British counterpart General David Ochterrlony. He was not in favour of the Sugauli Treaty but of a temporary armistice so that after some time it would have been possible to claim on the Nepalese possessions ceded to the British.
Built a temple of the goddess Ganga in the early 18th century. The town of Gangotri in Uttarakhand, India is centred around this temple. To this day, it is one of the four sites in the Char Dham pilgrimage circuit, the most important Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Indian Himalayas.
He volunteered to retire and died on his pilgrimage to Gosaikunda.
General AmarSinghThapa was initially reluctant to go to war with the British.
Further west, general AmarSinghThapa overran lands as far as the Kangra - the strongest fort in the hill region – and laid siege to it (although by 1809, Ranjit Singh the ruler of the Sikh state in the Punjab, had intervened and drove the Nepalese army east of the Sutlej river).
AmarSinghThapa would take no part in the campaign – he had retired to a temple, dying shortly after the war ended.
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