i would love to see an action movie based on Colonel Alexander Gardeners adventures

This guy is a legend! He survived everything. Lived a long life, married locally and left a detailed account of it. He alone protected a fort of HH Ranjit Singh and was super brave. He globetrotted, met czars, Indian Kings, and even served for Dost Mohammed Khan's nephew (His indian wife and son were killed in this battle too). He was injured badly in most of the fights but kept up. Lived a long life (very unusual for a 17th century soldier). I wish to take a deeper look into this topic. He was also mentioned in great novel, The man who would be king.

@ghaarvyisthebest7874

2 жыл бұрын

Shukla ji can u recommend me some best books on this man or ranjit singh

Great art... with a beautiful explanation. Thank you for posting

I recently bought this book “ The Taran Turban “ and enjoyed reading it. This is very good history book about Colonel Alexander Gardner and Sikh Empire.

Great information

Word up ji

soo cool. thank you

@UKPHA

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Bole so Nihal........

@Soorma_9

3 жыл бұрын

Sat Sri Akaaaaaaalluuuh

The way the turban was tied, could also mean that someone else tied the turban on him.

From my understanding of these European officers, not one fought with the Sikhs during the Anglo Sikh wars but either joined with the British or left. And if they did fight with the Sikhs they sabotaged them during the first war. I believe Gardner was a saboteur. Ranjit Singh may have joined most of the Sikhs together but he had horrible judgement to whom he employed and put in positions of power. And it came back to bite the small empire he created.

@simranjitsingh9874

3 жыл бұрын

There were few who tried to weather the Turmoil like French general allard who stayed for a while after Ranjit bu I guess couldn’t resist through all political machinations, colonel canora who died in second Anglo Sikh war refusing to parlay with British and a Spanish doctor who stayed in lahore. On the whole you are right most abandoned the ship but equal number of Sikh generals were to be blamed for sabotaging the war effort against the British including the royal house itself. Not sure what mercenaries could have done differently.

@paulstone3590

3 жыл бұрын

@@simranjitsingh9874 Yes you're correct a few did stay behind and fight with the Sikhs. But after Ranjit Singh died the hostility toward them increased and many left. In the end of the day Sikhs fought among themselves in different factions and this eventually led to the British defeating them. The lesson that Sikhs should have learned from this was to make sure good men are left in positions of power or the bad ones will destroy everything to get theirs. That is a lesson all people's from past to present should have learned.

@HarvirParmar99

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulstone3590 Wise words

@paulstone3590

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarvirParmar99 Thank you. I try to understand a issue and give a fair accounting.

@maiholiaw4927

Жыл бұрын

Gardner was an American, FYI, and in his time, Americans hated the Brits.

A very strange story. Who needs fiction?