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In his left hand he holds a sheet of paper upon which is drawn a diagram of an elliptical orbit

The First Sikh War, India mb-code XJF444351 is a kind of wattleThe First Sikh War, India, 1840s, (c1920). The charge of the 16th Lancers at Aliwal, January 1846; the 3rd King's Own Light Dragoons at Firozshah, December 1845; the 31st Regiment at Mudki, December 1845; and the 31st Regiment at Sobraon, February 1846. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume IV, by Walter Hutchinson, (London, c1920s).