The Jallianwala Bagh massacre (also known as the Amritsar massacre), took place in the Jallianwala Bagh public garden in the northern Indian city of Amritsar on 13 April 1919. The shooting that took place was ordered by Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer. On Sunday, 13 April 1919, Dyer was convinced of a major insurrection and thus he banned all meetings. On hearing that a meeting of 15,000 to 20,000 people including women, children and the elderly had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh, Dyer went with fifty Gurkha riflemen to a raised bank and ordered them to shoot at the crowd. Dyer continued the firing for about ten minutes, until the ammunition supply was almost exhausted; Dyer stated that 1,650 rounds had been fired, a number which seems to have been

The British and the Sutlej Treaty In 1808, at the end of April, an agent of the British government arrived at Lahore with presents for the Maharaja from the British government. The purpose of this visit was to strengthen relations between Ranjit Singh's government and the British government, which had been initiated by Eusaf Ali Khan 8 years before. Ranjit Singh was anxious to establish a Sikh monarchy extending from the Indus to the Jamna. The rulers of Malwa and Sirhind were filled with alarm, as they clearly foresaw their own ruin. In March, 1808, the rulers implored the protection of the British government, to solicit the protection of all states south-east of the Sutlej. Moreover, the ambitious Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of France, was believed to be meditating the invasion of India. The British wanted to form an defensive aliance with Ranjit Singh, and send C.T. Metcalfe to