Sagat Singh: The General Who Never Lost a Battle

Sagat Singh: The General Who Never Lost a Battle

In 1961, the government of Portugal offered a reward of $10,000 for anyone who could capture Sagat Singh, an Indian brigadier and the liberator of the Indian state of Goa, previously a Portuguese territory. Posters depicting him as a “wanted man” even sprung up all over Lisbon! His biography, written by his aide-de-camp (later Major General) Randhir Sinh in 1971, is aptly titled A Talent for War. Singh’s rise to military success Singh was born …