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repeat itself and as terrain logistics
and proximity to economic centers often
dictate the locations of battles many
decisive battles have happened in the
same places for India this location his
panty panty two battles that occurred
there three decades apart changed the
fate of the entire subcontinent for the
next three centuries the expansion of
the Muslim Caliphate changed the balance
of power in Asia and one of the results
of it was the Islamization of the turkic
tribes in Central Asia the Caliphate was
slowly getting decentralized and the
Turkic nomads began their migration in
all directions by the middle of the 10th
century the north of India was under
constant Turkic raids and in 1206 this
slow invasion allowed the warlord could
Medina back to establish a state called
the Delhi Sultanate in the northern part
of India this new state managed to stop
the Mongolian attacks in the 12th and
early 13th centuries and by 1320 reached
its peak with most of India conquered by
the Delhi Sultanate however ineffective
rulers local rebellions and the timurid
invasion weakened the Sultanate and by
the end of the 14th century only
northern India was under its control a
new dynasty of Afghan descent the Lodi
was able to come to power and stabilize
the Sultanate in the second half of the
15th century but the state was still in
decline
the north central asia was in turmoil as
various successors of Tamerlane were
vying for his empire one of them Zaheer
deen muhammad was just 11 years old when
he inherited Fergana from his father in
1494 this conqueror who would later be
known as barber which means taiga in
Persian managed to take the traditional
center of the region
the city of Sun weakened by his 16th
birthday soon the enemies of the BIR
counter-attacked and he lost control of
both of these regions he had to find
refuge elsewhere through many hardships
berber was finally able to form a small
army and took Kabul in 1504 Berber was
too ambitious to be confined to his
small domain and he turned his attention
to India by 1519 he reached the Chenab
River in modern Pakistan the Lodi
dynasty was struggling with internal
dynastic strife and a few of its
representatives rebelled against the
Sultan and Ibrahim Lodi they appealed to
the burro who used this to start his
invasion Punjab changed hands a few
times until the war became the master of
this region in 1525 Ibrahim Lodi left
Delhi early the next year and started
moving to the north while Berber moves
to panty pot on the 12th of April the
two armies stood facing each other for 8
days and the battle that decided the
fate of these lands took place on April
20th
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Berbers army consisted of Turks Mongols
Persians and Afghans it was built around
a veteran corps which had been
campaigning alongside him for over a
decade and thus the troops and
commanders were confident and familiar
with each other horse archers with their
deadly Turco Mongol composite bows
formed the main body of the army while
his infantry consisted of foot archers
also armed with composite bows and
matchlock Musketeers Berber also had
twenty cannons
he received his gunpowder weapons either
from the Ottomans or the suffer this
according to different sources but Bors
army and his tactics were a mix of two
military traditions the Ottoman and the
Mongol timur it meanwhile the army of
the delhi sultanate was based around war
elephants and cavalry this army was of a
feudal nature and had no gunpowder units
ibrahim lodi tsar me at panty pant may
be estimated to have had fifty thousand
men and four hundred war elephants
perhaps 25,000 of these were the heavy
cavalry of afghan descent the rest being
feudal levies or mercenaries of less
value the infantry was very much cannon
fodder
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wait not well your foe Fitz arrow - both
stirring when you can send your own
arrow into him Babur had his cavalry in
the second line divided into three
groups with his right flank next to the
city of Panipat and his left side
protected by a ditch and stakes
he and his guard were in the center the
first line consisted of infantry which
was stationed on wagons changed to each
other which turned each wagon into a
miniature fortress and gave arches and
Musketeers much-needed elevation there
were gaps left between the carts to
allow cannons to shoot ibrahim lodi z'
army had elephants in the vanguard with
cavalry in the second line and infantry
in the third the Sultan himself with his
5,000 strong guard stayed in the rear he
was sure that his numbers would decide
the day so he ordered almost all of his
troops to attack head-on the elephants
in the front was scared by the
unfamiliar sound of gunpowder and were
stopped in the tracks which bogged down
the charge ibrahim cavalry on the left
flank attempted to attack the enemies
right but the latter was reinforced from
the center and this attack was repelled
as the elephants were either getting
killed or retreating in panic any
semblance of order was lost and Berber
sent both his right and left flank
cavalry to attempt a pincer move that
forced his foes left and right flanks to
turn towards the horse archers and the
Sultanate Army was pinned leaving it
open two shots from the wagons and
artillery behind it
Babu himself joined the attack moving
his guard around the cart from the right
side the Sultan's forces were now hard
surrounded
and ibrahim lodi stepped forward to help
the morale of his truth but it was too
late to change the cause of the battle
and when the Sultan himself was killed
the action was over the Sultanate lost
more than 20,000 troops and ceased to
exist while Berbers Mukul empire that
replaced it had few casualties Delhi was
now under Berbers control and in 1527 he
scored another impressive victory
against the local Rajput confederation
at can WA this success once again showed
the dominance of the Mughals weaponry
and tactics most of northern India was
now part of Barbara's domain but his
death in 1531 stopped the consolidation
process his heir Humayun slowly started
losing territory under pressure from the
newly formed sir Empire of Sher Shah
Suri
and even had to take refuge in the
Safavid court by 1540 one who million
spent more than ten years in exile and
was only able to return to India in 1554
during the next year he defeated the new
ruler of the Sur Empire second da and
re-established control over parts of
northern India unfortunately for the
Mughals Huma Yun died in an accident in
1556
this allowed the Suri Empire to
counter-attack chief minister hemu moved
swiftly and in early october of 1556
claimed delhi surprisingly he also
declared independence from the sir
Empire and was coronated as king the new
Mughal leader Akbar was just 13 years
old but his guardian Bairam Khan was a
capable commander he moved the move
towards Delhi in early November
Mukul forces reached the area near panty
pad and were confronted by Hemu the
Mughals were once again outnumbered with
something over 10,000 against 30,000
enemy troops by Ramkin selected a battle
location with a deep ravine dividing the
two sides to level the playing field the
Mughal army seemingly only had cavalry
and elephants and will split into five
groups of horse archers and a vanguard
consisting of elephants while Hemu had
cavalry in the first line infantry in
the second with elephants in front him
ooh himself was right in one of the
beasts the battle started with her moves
right and left wing cavalry and
elephants moving forward to attack their
counterparts this attack succeeded and
the Milko flanks were forced to slowly
retreat under this pressure
yram Khan sent his second line cavalry
behind to the charging enemy to attack
it from the rear moo-cow horse archers
were superior to those of their enemy
and their volleys were more successful
so he mil had to push back against the
flanking forces which retreated the
ravine was making it hard to mount a
proper attack and when he muda sided to
move forward he had to move around only
a portion of his force was able to
attack the enemy center and yet sources
claim that the Mughal forces were on the
brink of defeat the battle was decided
by an arrow that found the slit in
Hebrew whose helmet his army panicked
upon seeing the death of their commander
and broke their lines the Mughals once
again lost very few warriors while
killing more than 5000 enemies
Akbar continued consolidating territory
and by the time of his death more than
half of India was under Mughal control
the Mughal Empire lived on until 1857
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