High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The First Anglo-Sikh war began in late 1845, after a combination of increasing disorder in the Sikh kingdom following the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the British East India Company led to the Khalsa invading British territory. The British had won the first two major battles of the war, through a combination of luck, the steadfastness of British and Bengal units and equivocal conduct bordering on deliberate treachery by the commanders of the Khalsa. On the British side, the Governor General, Sir Henry Hardinge, had been dismayed by the head-on tactics of the Bengal Army's commander-in-chief, Sir Hugh Gough and was seeking to have him removed from command, but no commander senior enough to supersede Gough could arrive from England for several months.

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