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Battle of Lohgarh

Part of Mughal-Sikh Wars

Date	10 December 1710
Location	Lohgarh
Result	Banda Singh Bahadur flees Lohgarh, before Mughals storm the fortress.Mughals failed to capture Banda
Territorial changes	Punjab India

Belligerents

Banda Bahadur Sikhs

Mughal Empire

Commanders and leaders

Banda Singh Bahadur

Bahadur Shah Kanwar Khan

Strength

750

60,000

v t e Late Mughal-Sikh Wars
Nadaun Guler Taragarh Anandpur (1st, 1700) Anandpur (2nd, 1700) Basoli Chamkaur (1st) Anandpur (1st, 1704) Anandpur (2nd, 1704) Sarsa Chamkaur (2nd) Muktsar Jajau Amritsar (1709) Sonepat Samana Kapuri Sadhaura Ropar Chappar Chiri Sirhind Saharanpur Nanautu Jalalabad Kotla Begum Bhilowal Rahon Thanesar Lohgarh (1710) Jammu Lohgarh (1712) Kiri Pathan Gurdas Nangal Gurdaspur Thikriwala Basarke Amritsar (1738) Samad Khan's Expedition Sarai Nurdin Rorī Sahib Sodhra and Badra (1748) Amritsar (1748) Ram Rauni Multan (1749) Nadaun (1752) Anandpur (1753) Patti Delhi (1764) Panipat (1770) Kunjpura (1772) Jind Ghanaur Patiala Shafi's Campaign Sirhind (1781) Delhi (1783)

Late Mughal-Sikh Wars

After Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah's army recaptured Sirhind from the Sikhs, the Mughal army moved towards Lohgarh, where they engaged with the Sikhs and on December 10, 1710. Banda Singh Bahadur was quick to flee the scene before the Mughal's took the fortress.

Responding to the Sikh victories in Punjab,Mughal emperor bahadur's army recaptured Sirhind then advanced on the Sikh fortress of Lohgarh near Sadhaura. Both sides lost heavily in assaults and sorties before the Emperor assigned with 60,000 troops.Banda singh soon fled and General kanwar singh then took the fortress by storm in 1710 Banda became a serious trouble for the Mughals so they chased him afterwards .Sikhs already destroyed Sirhind state so the Mughals were feared of Banda Singh .They chased him till 1716 in the siege of Gurdaspur

References

^ Jacques, Tony. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. Greenwood Press. p. 595. ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5.

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