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Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner (1785-1877), originally from Wisconsin, served as a colonel in Maharaja Ranjit Singh's army from 1831-1849. He was one of three Americans to serve the Sikh empire. (Source: Wikipedia)

Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Americans

October 24, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

While we often discuss the first Sikhs who arrived in the United States (as early as the end of the 18th century, and more commonly in the early 20th), a recent article by Kulbir Colin Singh Dhillon provides short biographies about the earliest recorded Americans who served Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Punjab in the first half of the 19th century: In March 2007 whilst doing research on the Sikh Kingdom I came across a newspaper article titled, “A Yankee in the […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner, Colonel Canora, Josiah Harlan, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Sikh empire

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