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| {{Short description|Battle between Maratha and Durrani Empires}}
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| | conflict = Battle of Peshawar
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| | partof = [[Maratha conquest of North-west India]]
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| | date = 8 May 1758
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| | place = [[Peshawar]], Now in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], Pakistan
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| | result = Maratha victory | |
| | territory = [[Peshawar]] captured by [[Maratha Empire|Marathas]] and annexed into the [[Maratha Empire]].<ref>{{Google books |plainurl= |id=jBBYD2J2oE4C |page=43 |title=[[Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia]] }}</ref>
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| | combatant1 = <center>[[Image:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg|45px|border]]<br>[[Maratha Empire]]</center>
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| | combatant2 = <center>[[File:Flag of the Durrani Empire.svg|40px|border]] <br>[[Durrani Empire]]</center>
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| | commander1 = [[Raghunathrao]]<br/>[[Malhar Rao Holkar]]<br/>[[Tukoji Rao Holkar]]
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| | commander2 = [[Timur Shah Durrani]]<br/>Jahan Khan
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| The '''Battle of Peshawar''' took place on 8 May 1758 between [[Maratha Empire]] and the [[Durrani Empire]]. The Marathas were victorious in the battle and [[Peshawar]] was captured and ultimately annexed into the [[Maratha Empire]]. Before that, the fort of Peshawar was being guarded by Durrani troops under [[Timur Shah Durrani]] and Jahan Khan. When [[Raghunathrao]] and [[Malhar Rao Holkar]] had left [[Punjab]] they appointed [[Tukoji Rao Holkar]] as their representative in this area of the sub-continent. He along with Khandoji Kadam defeated the Afghan garrison.<ref name="ReferenceA">Third Battle of Panipat by Abhas Verma {{ISBN|9788180903397}} Bharatiya Kala Prakashan</ref> The victory in this battle is considered a great success for Marathas as now their rule had extended to the border of Afghanistan, located 2000 km far from their capital [[Pune]].
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| ==Aftermath==
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| The Battle of Peshawar took place on 8 May 1758 between Maratha Empire and the Durrani Empire. The Marathas were victorious in the battle and Peshawar was captured. The battle was seen as a huge success for the Marathas who hoisted the Bhagwa Jhanda (Maratha's saffron flag) on top of the Peshawar fort, their rule had now stretched from Pune to Delhi and now to the border of the Durrani Empire in Peshawar. Before that, the fort of Peshawar was being guarded by Durrani troops under Timur Shah Durrani and Jahan Khan. After being defeated by the army of Marathas, Durranis with Jahan Khan and Timur Shah Durrani left the fort and fled to Afghanistan meanwhile Marathas captured and took control of the fort.<ref name="War">[https://books.google.com/books?id=zp0FbTniNaYC&pg=PA103&dq=maratha+plunder+rohilkhand&hl=en&ei=kh0tTuaaEIjsrQeo3qGyDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=maratha%20plunder%20rohilkhand&f=false War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849]</ref> The victory in this battle is considered a great success for Marathas as now their rule had extended to the border of Afghanistan, located 2000 km far from their capital Pune.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name=K.RoyIHB>{{cite book | last=Roy |first=Kaushik |title=India's Historic Battles: From Alexander the Great to Kargil |publisher=Permanent Black, India |pages=80–1 |isbn=978-8178241098}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first=Mountstuart |last=Elphinstone |title=History of India | url=https://archive.org/details/historyindia02elphgoog |publisher=John Murray, Albermarle Street |year=1841 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyindia02elphgoog/page/n318 276]}}</ref><ref name="Sharma1999">{{cite book | author=S.R. Sharma | title=Mughal empire in India: a systematic study including source material |url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=4j_VLlGqVSoC |page=763 }} | access-date=30 November 2011 | year = 1999 | publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-819-2|page=763}}</ref>
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| ==Further reading==
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| * {{Google books |plainurl= |id=jBBYD2J2oE4C |page=43 |title=Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia }}
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| * Duff, James Grant. [{{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=e_Pc4ZQMoy0C |page=199 }} ''A history of the Mahrattas'', Volume 2]
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| * {{Google books |plainurl= |id=zp0FbTniNaYC |page=103 |title=War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740–1849 }}
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