British troops gave no quarter to #Sikh troops fleeing a battlefield in the #SecondAngloSikhWar in 1849 on #ThisDayInHistory, shooting or bayoneting each of the wounded on the field, and even searching all the trees for hiding men and having "great sport.. firing up at them".

The #SiegeOfMultan, a city in #Punjab, became a massacre on #ThisDayInHistory in 1849. UK press found it strange that the "Asiatic mind" resisted control, and this event in the #SecondAngloSikhWar was a lesson -- women & children were shot in the streets and everything plundered.