According to
Alexander Cunningham, Mong was built on the ancient city of
Nicaea which was founded by
Alexander the Great in commemoration of his victory over
Porus in the
Battle of the Hydaspes. However, the ruins of the
city of
Nicea have not been found yet, not least because the landscape has changed somewhat. The 1910 edition of
Encyclopædia Britannica cited Mong as the location of Nicaea, but the latest edition does not state this. According to
The Imperial Gazetteer of India: "The overthrow of the
Bactrians by the
Parthians in the latter half of the second century brought another change of rulers, and the
coins of the
Indo-Scythian king
Maues (c. 120 BCE), who is known to local tradition as Raja Moga, have been found at Mong". At the end of the first century CE the whole of the
Punjab was conquered by the
Yueh-chi." Centuries later, at almost the same location, a few kilometers from Mong, the
British forces under
Lord Gough and the
Khalsa Sikh Army fought the 1849
Battle of Chillianwala in the
Second Anglo-Sikh War. ==References==