Battle of Chamkaur The Battle of Chamkaur or also known as Battle Of Chamkaur Sahib was a battle fought between the Khalsa led by Guru Gobind Singh against the Mughal forces led by Wazir Khan . Guru Gobind Singh makes a reference to this battle in Zafarnamah . He tells how a million Mughal troops attacked his men . Preamble to the battle . After the Guru left Anandpur on the night of December 6 to 7 , 1705 , they had crossed the Sarsa river and stopped in Chamkaur . They asked permission of the city chief for shelter to rest for the night in their " garhi " or haveli . The older brother thought giving him shelter would be dangerous so he refused . But the younger brother gave permission to let them stay there for the night . Despite giving assurance of safe conduct , the Mughal soldiers were looking for Guru Gobind Singh , to take his head as a trophy . After learning that the party of Sikhs had taken shelter in the haveli , they laid siege upon it . The Mughals had a force of over 1000000 ( one million ) consisting of Pathan , and Turk regiments . The Guru only commanded 40 men on the eve of the battle . The actual battle is said to have taken place outside a mudfort where the Guru was resting . Negotiations broke down and the Sikh soldiers chose to engage the overwhelming Mughal forces , thus allowing their Guru to escape . A " Gurmatta " or consensus amongst the Sikhs compelled Gobind Singh to obey the will of the majority and escape by cover of night . It is alleged that the Sikh warriors were able to engage the Mughal troops in majority due to training in the Sikh martial art of " Shastarvidya " . All the Sikhs guarding the Guru were killed in the battle . Zafarnama . Zafarnama or " Epistle of Victory " is a letter that was written by Guru Gobind Singh to the then Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb . Zafarnama vividly describes what happened at Chamkaur , and also holds Aurangzeb responsible for what occurred and the promises he broke : " 13 : Aurangzeb ! I have no trust in your oaths anymore . ( You have written that ) God is one and that He is witness ( between us ) . 14 : I don ' t have trust equivalent to even a drop ( of water ) in your generals ( who came to me with oaths on Quran that I will be given safe passage out of Anandgarh Fort ) . They were all telling lies . 15 : If anyone trusts ( you ) on your oath on Quran , that person is bound to be doomed in the end . " After his escape from Chamkaur , the exhausted Guru is said to have been carried by two Pathans , ( Ghani Khan and Nabi Khan ) , to Jatpur where he was received by the local Muslim chieftain . He later went to Dina , and stayed at Bhai Desa Singh ' s house , where he is said to have written " Zafarnama " in Persian , in 111 versions . The end of the battle . On December 7 , 1705 , at first light , officers of the Mughal horde , Khwaja Muhammad and Nahar Khan , sent a messenger with terms of treaty demanding submission to Islamic law , which the Guru , his sons and valiant warriors unanimously declined . Elder Sahibzada Ajit Singh reacted with outrage vehemently demanding the emissary be silent and return to his masters . The Mughal officers ordered their troupes to mercilessly attack the Guru ' s vastly outnumbered warriors . The Guru ' s and his Singh ' s responded fiercely , defending their fortress from the horde ' s advance with deadly accuracy . Their small store of arrows and ammunition quickly expended , by late afternoon hand to hand combat remained their only option to surrender and forced conversion to Islam . Two Mughal officers , Nahar Khan and Ghairat Khan , and many of their soldiers died attempting to breach the compound . The warrior ' s heroic martyrdom held back the enemy hordes and prevented all out invasion of the fortress . . Aftermath . After finding out that the Guru had escaped , the Mughals started searching the woods and the area surrounding Chamkaur . The Mughals hastily chased after the Guru once they realised he had escaped . Guru Gobind Singh made a last stand against the Mughals at Muktsar , however , by then Aurangzeb had started to sue for peace . The Battle of Muktsar was the last battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh . There he wrote " Zafarnamah " , ( " the epistle of victory " ) , a letter to Aurangzeb in which he wrote The Guru emphasised how he was proud that his sons had died fighting in battle , and that he had ' thousands of sons – the Singhs ' . He also said that he would never trust Aurengzeb again due to his broken promises and lies . See also . Bhai Jiwan Singh