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Battle of Pratapgad

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Pratapgad Fort · Satara · Maharashtra

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 10 November 1659 Shivaji killed the Bijapur general Afzal Khan at a parley below Pratapgad fort and routed his army, the first major Maratha victory over a regional power and a foundational episode in Maratha ascendancy.

Belligerents2

Maratha forces (Shivaji)
Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Pratapgarh
Jadunath Sarkar, Shivaji and His Times
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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