Hilli

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1971 northern-front battlefield

Hilli is used as a place timeline node for the 1971 Battle of Hilli and related northern-front military history.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Events in This Place

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1 event

1971 (November-December)

Battle of Hilli

One of the hardest-fought battles on the northern front.

The Battle of Hilli was a prolonged and costly engagement on the northern front during the 1971 war. It tied down Pakistani defenses and became one of the most remembered battlefield episodes of the eastern campaign.