June 19 -- It was a series of bloody conflicts fought in the great hill ranges of northeastern India in the early 19th century that saw big battle losses and grudging admiration on both sides for ...
When the British Army came up against Nepali fighters 200 years ago, they were so impressed they decided to recruit them ...
June 19 -- Tough, wiry and unschooled, Padam Bahadur Gurung walked down from his village in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal to a British army recruiting camp in the plains in the autumn of 1958 with ...