Gujrat, 21 February 1849, was decided by artillery. The British brought around ninety guns against roughly sixty and opened at long range for two and a half hours before the infantry moved. The Sikh guns were silenced first and the line broke after that.
The Afghan cavalry of Dost Muhammad Khan, present under the alliance Chattar Singh had made, left the field early.
The formal surrender took place at Rawalpindi on 14 March 1849. The account that has come down in Punjabi is of a soldier laying his weapon on the pile and saying aaj Ranjit Singh mar gaya, today Ranjit Singh died. It is quoted everywhere and is not attributed to a named man in any contemporary record.
The Punjab was annexed on 29 March 1849. Duleep Singh Ji, then ten, signed away the state and the Koh-i-Noor. He was sent to Fatehgarh, converted, and shipped to England in 1854.
Sikh soldiers were recruited into the Company's army in large numbers within a decade, and were used in the fighting of 1857.
Hugh Gough had been attacked in London over the casualties at Chillianwala six weeks earlier and had already been ordered replaced. He fought this one with the guns first, which is exactly what the criticism had demanded.
The Sikh regiments were disbanded and disarmed over the following months, each man given a small payment for the road home. The Khalsa army had existed for about forty years.
Gujrat is in Pakistan, in the district of the same name. There is no memorial on the field to the army that lost.