The Gurkha War (1814-1816), also known as the Anglo-Nepalese War, was fought between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Nepal.
The war was declared by nepalese prime minister and commander in chief Mukhtiyar General Bhimsen Thapa and British Governor sir Warren Hastings. The prelude to the war was that Nepal had been opposing any British actions in the subcontinent and stood a threat to their capital of Calcutta. The immediate cause was the denial of Nepalese forces to evacuate the disputed territories of Audh (now in Uttar Pradesh in india).
A total of around 12000 Nepalese soldiers including women and children fought against the 30000 white British soldiers excluding the allying Indian States soldiers. Nepal lacked enough military because most of them had been killed in the freshly ended national unification campaign but the soldiers were determined and robust.
The Gurkhas of Nepal inflicted a series of repulses on the British Army in Bengal. Each side earned the respect of the other, but eventually British forces were victorious in the western fronts like Nalapani, Almora, Dehradun, Sutluj commanded under Nepalese general Amar Singh Thapa and British general Sir David Ochterlony. The resulting Sugauli Treaty of 1816 gave the British the tract of hill country where Simla, the site of the future summer capital of British India, was situated and it settled relations between Nepal and British India for the rest of the British period. Nepal remained independent and isolated, supported by the export of soldiers to strengthen the British military presence in India.
The recruitment of the Gurkhas from the surrounding villages is concentrated in this region.
Gurkhas along with British have fought countless wars, campaigns, battles including the Great War (World War I) and World War II and in many post-world war fronts where Gurkhas have shown their outstanding bravery, courage and spirit to fight till death under the harshest of conditions.
Gurkhas continues to serve the British with the same passion, attitude and faith and their courage, loyalty and ability as an honorable and a fearsome soldier of the world has never been questioned and presumably will never be.
Gurkhas are best known for their history of bravery and strength in the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments.
Gurkha (or Gorkha) are a people from Nepal who take their name from the former city-state of Gorkha, which went on to found the Kingdom of Nepal later on.
Gurkhas served in British troops in the Pindaree War[?] of 1817, in Bhurtbore[?] in 1826 and Sikh Wars[?] in 1846 and 1848.
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