I don't think Nepal won the battle againts British. It surely wasn't easy for the British to take over or to calm Nepal down though. Nepal was in a lookout to extend it's border and met with British. Well after that, we all know, Nepal had to sign Suguli Treaty where it lost a lof of it's territory. And British were smart and strong enough to bully Nepal to get only the parts where they could benifit from. And also there is Nepal's defeat againts Tibet, which led Nepal to pay taxes to the Tibetean-Chinese empire up until early eighteenth century.

Nepalese fought bravely with British, stories of which you read on Nalapani etc. However, they were no match for the British might who engulfed India via East India Company's brandname. Brits didn't have much interest in Nepal and just didn't wanted much disturbances from Nepal or her Northern Neighbour. Thus We had Sugauli sandhi. Ranas were like British Representative to Nepal (Remember CHandra Shamsher selling all those trees for British Railroad in India, for the cheapest price). British had Nepal on check all the time, but we can atleast take a pride on saying that we fought bravely with them, and we were sovereign nation all the time.

THE BEGINNING - GURKHAS, NEPAL AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY Robert Clive's decisive victory at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 firmly established British supremacy in India thereby opening the door for expansion of the Honourable East India Company. Some 10 years after Plassey the British started to come into contact with a unique and vigorous power on the northern borders of its newly won territories in Bengal and Bihar. This power was the city-state of Gorkha led by its dynamic King Prithwi Narayan Shah. Gorkha was a feudal hill village in what is now western Nepal, the village from which the Gurkha takes its name. Prithwi Narayan Shah and his successors grew so powerful that they overran the whole of the hill country from the Kashmir border in the west to Bhutan in the east. Eventually, as a result of boundary disputes and repeated raids by Gurkha columns into British territory, the Governor General declared war on Nepal in 1814. After two long and bloody campaigns a Peace Treaty was signed at Sugauli in 1816. During the war a deep feeling of mutual respect and admiration had developed between the British and their adversaries, the British being much impressed by the fighting and other qualities of the Gurkha soldier. Under the terms of the Peace Treaty large numbers of Gurkhas were permitted to volunteer for service in the East India Company's Army. From these volunteers were formed the first regiments of the Gurkha Brigade, and from this time stems Britain's friendship with Nepal, a country which has proved a staunch ally ever since and has become our 'oldest ally' in Asia. Never has the trust that was then placed in the Gurkha soldier ever been in doubt. Alongside his British comrade in arms he has fought in many parts of the world and has proved himself to be of the closest of friends and bravest of allies that Britain has known.

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Nepal beat the british..our soldiers had no fear with khukuris in hands