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Commemorative Plaque at the Nicholson's Obelisk, in the Margalla Hills on the GT Road near the twin cities of Rawalpindi–Islamabad, Pakistan.
This column is erected by friends, British and Native, to the memory of Brigadier General [[John Nicholson]], CB, who after taking a hero’s part in four great wars for the defense of British India, Cabul 1840, 1st Seikh War 1845, 2nd Seikh War 1848, Sepoy Mutiny 1857, and being as renowned for his civil rule in the Punjab as for his share in its conquest, fell mortally wounded on 14th September in leading to victory the main column of assault, at the Great Siege of Delhi, and died 23rd September 1857, Aged 34, mourned by the two races with an equal grief.
