Rohilla

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Nawabs of Rampur, Battle of Panipat, Pathans of Uttar Pradesh, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, Maulana Mohammad Ali, Rohilkhand, Najib-ul-Daula, Murtaza Ali Khan, Najibabad, Hamid Ali Khan of Rampur, Raza Ali Khan of Rampur, Muhammad Amir Khan, Hafiz Rahmat Khan, Kalb Ali Khan, Zulfikar Ali Khan, Ali Mohammed Khan, Yusef Ali Khan, Rohilla War, Muhammad Kazim Ali Khan, Faizullah Khan, Muhammad Mushtaq Ali Khan, Sarai Rohilla Railway Station, Ahmad Ali Khan of Rampur, Ghulam Muhammad Khan, Muhammad Said Khan, Zabita Khan, Muhammad Ali Khan of Rampur, Muhammad Wazir Khan, Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla. Excerpt: The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761, at Panipat (Haryana State, India), about 60 miles (95.5 km) north of Delhi. The battle pitted the French-supplied artillery and cavalry of the Marathas against the heavy cavalry and mounted artillery(zamburak and jizail) of the Afghans led by Ahmad Shah Durrani, an ethnic Pashtun, also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali. The battle is considered one of the largest battles fought in the 18th century. The decline of the Mughal Empire had led to territorial gains for the Maratha Confederacy. Ahmad Shah Abdali, amongst others, was unwilling to allow the Marathas' gains to go unchecked. In 1759, he raised an army from the Pashtun tribes and made several gains against the smaller garrisons. The Marathas, under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau, responded by gathering an army of between 70,000-100,000 people with which they ransacked the Mughal capital of Delhi. There followed a series of skirmishes along the banks of the river Yamuna at Karnal and Kunjpura which eventually turned into a two-month-long siege led by Abdali against the Marathas. The specific site of the battle itself is disputed by historians but most consider it to have occurred somewhere near modern day Kaalaa Aamb a...