Important Battles Fought in India (Part II)

  • Battle of Haldighati (1576):

Akbar’s forces headed by Raja Man Singh defeated Rana Pratap, the brave Rajput king.

Though defeated, Rana Pratap refused to accept Mughal authority and carried on warfare till his death. Invasion of India by Nadir Shah/Battle of Karnal (1739):

The Battle of Karnal was a decisive victory for Nader Shah of Iran, during his invasion of Mughal dynasty of India.

Nader’s forces defeated the army of Muhammad Shah.

  • First Carnatic War (1746–1748):

The First Carnatic War was the Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession and the first of a series of Carnatic Wars that established early British dominance on the east coast of the Indian subcontinent.

The war set the stage for the rapid growth of French hegemony in southern India under the command of French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix in the Second Carnatic War.

  • Second Carnatic War (1749-54):

The Second Carnatic War was a struggle for power between various Indian claimants to power in southern India, each supported by the French or the British.

The First Carnatic War had been a direct conflict between the two European powers, but in the Second Carnatic War both of them officially acted in support of rival local claimants in Hyderabad and the Carnatic.

  • Third Carnatic War (1756–1763):

The Third Carnatic war was a local version of the Seven Years war in Europe.

The Third Carnatic War spread beyond southern India and into Bengal where British forces captured the French settlement of Chandernagore (now Chandannagar) in 1757.

The Third Carnatic War put an end to the French ambitions to create a colonial empire in India.

  • Battle of Plassey (1757):

The English under Lord Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah.

It brought Muslim Rule in Bengal to an end and laid foundations of the British Rule in India.

  • Battle of Wandiwash (1760):

Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote.

It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63).

The English defeated the French.

  • Third Battle of Panipat (1761):

The Third Battle of Panipat fought on January 14, 1761 between the Marathas and forces of the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali and his allies was one of the biggest and most significant battles of the 18th century in India.

Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated Marathas.

It gave a terrible blow to the Maratha power. It made the field clear for the English.

  • Battle of Buxar (1764):

The Battle of Buxar was fought on 23 October 1764 between the forces of the British East India Company led by Hector Munro and the combined army of Mughal rulers.

The Mughal forces were drawn from 2 princely states, whose rulers were Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, and the Mughal King Shah Alam II.

The English victory at Buxar finally riveted the shackles of the Company’s rule upon Bengal.

  •  First Anglo-Mysore War (1767–1769):

The First Mysore War was faught between the kingdom of Mysore and British rulers.

The prime attractor of the war was Hyder Ali, ruler of Mysore.

Haider All was defeated by the English relinquishing all his rights over Mysore in favour of the English.


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