Major conflict1527

Battle of Khanwa

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Khanwa · near Fatehpur Sikri · Rajasthan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 16 March 1527 Babur's Mughal army defeated the Rajput confederacy under Rana Sanga of Mewar near Khanwa (west of Agra), using gunpowder and field fortifications to consolidate Mughal power in northern India after Panipat.

Belligerents2

Mughal Empire
Kingdom of Mewar (Rajput Confederacy)

ON THE MAPMughal Empire (Babur–Humayun)

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Khanwa
John F. Richards, The Mughal Empire
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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