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Battle of Kannauj

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Kannauj (Bilgram) · Uttar Pradesh · North India

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 17 May 1540 Sher Shah Suri again routed Humayun near Kannauj (Bilgram), driving the Mughal emperor into a fifteen-year exile and establishing Sur dynasty rule over North India.

Belligerents2

Sur Empire (Sher Shah Suri)
Mughal Empire

ON THE MAPMughal Empire (Babur–Humayun)

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Kannauj
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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