Havildar Ishar Singh Joins The Giants In Miniature Range
January 20, 2018 by brennon
Meet a new character for the Giants In Miniature range by Wargames Illustrated with Havildar Ishar Singh becomes the latest addition to the collection.
So, here is a bit more about this particular individual...
"The Battle of Saragarhi is known as one of the greatest last stands in military history. On 12th September 1897, 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36thbattalion of the Sikh regiment of the British Army, led by Havildar Ishar Singh, fought to their death against an army of over ten thousand marauding Orakzai and Afridi tribesmen.
Although they were offered safe passage, they fought on to delay any attacks on other forts in the area. All of the soldiers were decorated with the highest military honour available, The Indian Order of Merit."
This chap seems like a very heroic individual that you could base a splendid scenario around. It's not often that you get to hear more about these kinds of fellows when you're playing wargames but it offers up the chance for some additional learning too.
A rather dashing individual indeed!
"...led by Havildar Ishar Singh, fought to their death against an army of over ten thousand marauding Orakzai and Afridi tribesmen"
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He looks great, forgotten piece of history. Very much worth the read if you look it up.
The Indian mutiny stuff and the like has never been an issue for me, because it is not a part of my country´s history. However, seeing a miniature like this one and reading the text Brennan quoted I will at least give the historical aspect a try and look whether this might be something for me.
Very nice.
Seen a bit about this on a program didn’t the civilian’s into fort get slathered as well or was that
a fort later in the uprising.
Great looking figures may work in well as a IG Commander.
Not sure if anyone above is suggesting otherwise, but this event was not in the Indian Mutiny. In fact, I don’t think it was even in India. I am not pretending I know stuff about these conflicts, but I think this incident was in Afghanistan.
The battle took place on the NW frontier in what is now Pakistan
Ah, that would make a lot of sense!
Never heard of this before.. great story and a great figure.
In terms of location it was fought in what is now a province of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan.
Nice miniature from an interesting period in history.
21 soldiers defended the fort against 10, 000.
There are currently 3 films and a TV series under production about the battle.