Balbhadra Kunwar

Go capture the fort which you could not win by war, but now we've left it at our own will.

Balbhadra Kunwar (30 January 1789 – 13 March 1823) was Nepalese military commander during Anglo-Nepalese War.

Quotes

• It was not customary to receive or answer letters at such unreasonable hours.
  • In context of British General Gillespie's letter asking surrender of Gorkhalis during the Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in page no. 14 of Fraser, James Baillie (1820). Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin. OCLC 69385527. 

• I shall meet your General in the warfield.
  • In context of meeting by British General during the Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in [1] and page no. 14 of Fraser, James Baillie (1820). Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin. OCLC 69385527. 

• Go capture the fort which you could not win by war, but now we've left it at our own will.
  • To the British forces in the context of water blockade during Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in [2][3]

Quotes about him

• This is inscribed as a tribute of respect for our gallant adversary Bulbudder, Commander of the fort and his brave Goorkas who were afterwards, while in the service of Runjeet Sing, shot down in their ranks to the last man by Afghan artillery.
  • Photo of the quoted stone Inscription here