India – Large&nbsprare Sikh War lithograph of the Battle of Sobraon 1848 engraved by J Harris after Henry Martens published 1848. Measures – approx 24&nbspinches x 19 inches. The Battle of Sobraon was fought on 10 February 1846, between the forces of the East India Company and the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Sikh Empire of the Punjab. The First Anglo-Sikh war began in late 1845, after a combination of increasing disorder in the Sikh empire following the death of Ranjit Singh in 1839 and provocations by the British East India Company led to the Khalsa invading British territory. The British had won the first two major battles of the war through a combination of luck, the steadfastness of British and Bengal units and equivocal conduct bordering on deliberate treachery by Tej Singh and Lal Singh, the senior commanders of the Khalsa. Few of these lithographs of the Sikh War series were published and can be seen in institutions such as the National Army Museum