| Battle of Bhopal | |||||||||
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| Part of Maratha–Nizam War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Maratha Confederacy |
 Nizam of Hyderabad Awadh Subah Kingdom of Jaipur.[1] Kota State[2] | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Baji Rao I Chimaji Appa Ranoji Scindia Pilaji Jadhav |
.svg){kind=small} Asaf Jah I Saadat Ali Khan Safdar Jung[3] Mansur Ali Khan[citation needed] Sawai Jai Singh[4] Ishwari Singh of Jaipur[5] Subhasingh Bundela[6] | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 80,000 light cavalry[7] |
70,000 troops 120 cannons drawn by war-elephant corps 3,000 Camel-drawn Zamburak gunnery[7] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
The Battle of Bhopal was fought on 24 December 1737 in Bhopal between the Maratha Confederacy and the combined army of the Nizam and several Oudh generals in which Marathas under Bajirao I were victorious.[8]
- ^ Tikkiwal, H. c (1974). Jaipur And The Later Mughals. p. 37.
- ^ Sinha H. N. (1954). Rise Of The Peshwas (1954). p. 161.
- ^ Sinha H. N. (1954). Rise Of The Peshwas (1954). p. 161.
- ^ Tikkiwal, H. c (1974). Jaipur And The Later Mughals. p. 37.
- ^ Tikkiwal, H. c (1974). Jaipur And The Later Mughals. p. 37.
- ^ Tikkiwal, H. c (1974). Jaipur And The Later Mughals. p. 37.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
marathawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jaques, Tony (30 November 2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-313-02799-4.
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