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Watch Beating The Retreat ceremony in pics

New Delhi: Beating The Retreat ceremony marks the end of  Republic Day festivities in Delhi. It is held every year on January 29, three days after the Republic Day parade on Rajpath.  President Pranab Mukherjee

India TV News Desk Published : Jan 29, 2014 22:58 IST, Updated : Jan 30, 2014 6:38 IST
 

 

3. This ceremony revives an ancient war custom according to which troops used to stop fighting at sunset. Bugles announcing the sunset would sound in the battlefield. 

As soon as soldiers heard these bugles they would stand still in the battlefield and war would be stopped for the day.

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