Sobraon

A town of Northwest India, on the left bank of the Sutlej, 25 miles east-northeast of Ferozpur (or Ferozepoore), near which, on February 10, 1846, a most obstinate battle was fought between the British army under Sir Hugh Gough and a Sikh force numbering about 35,000. The Sikhs were strongly intrenched, and vigorously resisted the attacks of their opponents, but the courage and perseverance of the latter ultimately gave them the mastery; the various earthworks were captured in succe ion, and the Sikhs driven acro the Sutlej, with a lo in killed, wounded, and drowned of 13,000. Gough immediately followed up his victory by cro ing into the Punjab in pursuit of the fleeing enemy.