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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox military conflict<br />
| conflict = Siege of Shivneri Fort<br />
| partof = [[Mughal–Maratha Wars]]<br />
| date = April 1678<br />
| place = [[Shivneri Fort]]<br />
| territory = <br />
| result = Mughal victory<ref>Milind Gunaji, Offbeat Tracks in Maharashtra, p. 70[https://www.google.ae/books/edition/Offbeat_Tracks_in_Maharashtra/KHA9SzLMj3EC?hl=ar&gbpv=1&dq=Junnar+Shivaji+1673&pg=PA70&printsec=frontcover]</ref><ref>Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Poona (2 pts.)p. 227[https://www.google.ae/books/edition/Gazetteer_of_the_Bombay_Presidency_Poona/95o5AAAAIAAJ?hl=ar&gbpv=1&dq=Junnar+Shivaji+1673&pg=PA227&printsec=frontcover]</ref><br />
| status = <br />
| combatant1 = [[File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg|25px]] [[Maratha Empire]]<br />
| combatant2 = [[File:Alam of the Mughal Empire.svg|25px]][[Mughal Empire]]<br />
| commander1 = [[File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg|25px]] [[Shivaji]] <br />
| commander2 = [[File:Alam of the Mughal Empire.svg|25px]] Abdul Aziz Khan<br>[[File:Alam of the Mughal Empire.svg|25px]] Yahya Khan<br />
| strength1 = 300 men<br />
| strength2 = Unknown <br />
| casualties1 = Most were killed<br />
| casualties2 = Unknown<br />
| notes = <br />
}}<br />
{{Campaignbox Later Mughal-Maratha Wars}}<br />
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'''The Siege of Shivneri Fort''' was a military engagement between the Mughal garrison and the Maratha army in Shivneri Fort. The Mughals repulsed the Marathas who attempted to take the fort.<br />
==Siege==<br />
A few days after the return of [[Shivaji]] to [[Panhala]] in March, Maratha troops attacked a place called Mungi-Pattan on the [[Godavari River]], 30 miles south of [[Aurangabad]]. It was then, in the next month, that the Marathas attempted to attack [[Shivneri Fort]] and captured it. They stationed themselves in a village of [[Junnar]] at its foot and, at night, tried to scale the walls with a force of 300 men with nooses and rope ladders. However, the mughal commander, Abdul Aziz Khan, an expert Qildar, though he had sent his son and followers to reinforce the mughal general Yahya Khan in the village, personally slew all the Maratha infantry with a few men who had entered the fort. On the next day, he chased the remaining Maratha troops who hid in the hills below the fort, capturing them but releasing them with gifts, sending a message to Shivaji saying:<ref>Jadunath Sarkar, Shivaji And His Times, p. 359-60[https://archive.org/details/shivajihistimes00sarkrich/page/359/mode/1up?q=Sangamner&view=theater]</ref><ref>Modern Review Vol XXVI, p. 659[https://www.google.ae/books/edition/Modern_Review/fZaupVZKvRcC?hl=ar&gbpv=1&bsq=Shivneri+Shivaji+1678&dq=Shivneri+Shivaji+1678&printsec=frontcover]</ref><br />
{{Blockquote|text=So long as I am Qiladar, you will never take this fort.}}<br />
==References==<br />
[[Category:Battles involving the Maratha Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Battles involving the Mughal Empire]]<br />
[[Category:Conflicts in 1678]]<br />
[[Category:Shivaji]]</div>Ajay Kumar