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Lal Kurti
Lal kurti lal kurti is an old literally meaning red shirt is a locality in the heart of firozpur cantonment in district firozpur of punjab , india.It was also known as B.I.BAZAAR(BRITISH INDIA BAZAAR).It is a residential area from the british colonial era.It is situated in firozpur cantt in district firozpur which played a major role during Anglo Sikh war also known as battle of sara garhi. lal kurti has a population of around 2000 people which include a majority of Punjabi and a minority of Hindus .there were Muslims prior to partition but they all immigrated to Pakistan and other people settled her

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The RAF was founded in 1918, toward the end of World War I by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. After the war, the RAF was greatly reduced in size and during the inter-war years it was used to "police" the British Empire. The RAF underwent rapid expansion prior to and during the Second World War. During the war it was responsible for the aerial defence of Great Britain, the strategic bombing campaign against Germany and tactical support to the British Army around the world

1857 revolt
The sepoys, a generic term used for native Indian soldiers of the Bengal Army, had their own list of grievances against the Company Raj, mainly caused by the ethnic gulf between the British officers and their Indian troops. The British had issued new gunpowder cartridges that were widely believed to be greased with cow or pig fat, which insulted both Hindus and Muslims.[1] Other than Indian units of the British East India Company's army, much of the resistance came from the old aristocracy, who were seeing their power steadily eroded under the B Indian rebellion The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the

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