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day, a hunting party of Sikhs set their hawk upon an imperial hawk and brought it down. When the Mughal hunting party came to retrieve their hawk they used abusive language and the Sikhs then refused to part with it. This altercation led to blows and the
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Ghulam Rasul Khan, was injured. The incident with the hunting parties was used as an excuse to send out 7,000 soldiers with
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