Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal

Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal (Punjabi / ): also called Amo Kharal (1785 – 26 July 1857) was a Punjabi freedom activist and folk hero from British India, who fought against the British Raj in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Early History.
Ahmad Khan Kharal was born into a rich landowning family of the Kharal Punjabi Rajput tribe in the Sandal Bar region of Punjab, in Chak 434 Gb Jhamra village 23 km from Tandlianwala Faisalabad District and 57 km from Faisalabad city. As a young man he fought against the rising Sikh power led by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Later on, as an old man in his 70s, when the rebellion broke out against the British, he also raised a force to fight against them.
Death.
Ahmad Khan Kharal was quite successful in helping the local people and keeping them safe from British troops, keeping up a guerilla warfare against British Raj for some months. On 26 July 1857, Kharal went with a force to attack the Gogera Jail (now in Sahiwal District) to release some of his arrested companions arrested, but was ambushed by assistant commissioner of Gogera, Leopold Oliver Fitzhardinge Berkeley and their local allies. Kharal and his assistant, Sarang, were both killed fighting against the colonial force.