Sahibzada Ajit Singh and Jujhar Singh were martyred while leading other Sikhs into battle. See picture of the original Kachi Gari on the right () Our original history has been lost just for the sake of modernization. At Chamkaur the Sikhs stayed in a mud two-story house. Very sadly, the original Chamkaur-de-Gari/Kachi Gari was demolished by the SGPC and replaced with a new Gurdwara Sahib. The Sikhs were left to fight with swords and spears only. There were over 100,000 Moghul soldiers on foot and 700 mounted, pursuing the small group of 40 Sikhs. They were “a mere forty defying a hundred thousand,” in the words of Guru Ji. On Decemthe enemy had surrounded Fort Chamkaur and the Sikhs had exhausted their ammunition and arrows. Sahibzaade Ajit Singh (18) and Jujhar Singh (14) made it to the Fort of Chamkaur by December 6 with Guru Gobind Singh Ji and a group of 40 Sikhs. They suffered many casualties trying to cross the Sarsa, and many precious manuscripts of prayers were also lost in the river. On the night of DecemGuru Gobind Singh Ji and his fellow Sikhs left Anandpur Sahib when it was raining heavily, and crossed the Sarsa river with the Mughal army pursuing them.
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