Ramnagar, on the Chenab in November 1848, was the opening action of the Second Anglo-Sikh War in the field.
A British cavalry action against Sher Singh Attariwala's position went badly. Cavalry were sent into deep sand near the river against guns on the far bank and were cut up. Brigadier General Charles Cureton, one of the most respected cavalry officers in India, was killed, along with the commanding officer of the 14th Light Dragoons.
The Sikh position held and the army withdrew across the Chenab in good order weeks later.
The pattern of the second war followed: Ramnagar a repulse, Chillianwala a check, and then Gujrat decided by weight of artillery.
The site is in Gujranwala district in Pakistan and there is nothing on it.
The action cost the British a general, Charles Cureton, and a cavalry colonel, William Havelock, both killed the same afternoon. Losing two senior officers in a minor engagement made the repulse hard to present as anything else.
Sher Singh Attariwala had chosen a position with the Chenab behind him and broken sandy ground in front, which took the advantage away from cavalry. The British attack went in without adequate reconnaissance of that ground.
The war was decided at Gujrat in February 1849 and the annexation followed a month later. Ramnagar is the first of the four actions and the least remembered of them.