First battle of Panipat
| First Battle of Panipat | |||||||||
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| Part of Mughal conquests | |||||||||
 The battle of Panipat and the death of Sultan Ibrāhīm | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Mughal Empire |
 Delhi Sultanate | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Babur |
Ibrahim Lodi † | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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12,000[1]–25,000 soldiers [2][3] 15–20 field guns[1] |
20,000 regular cavalry[3] 20,000 irregular cavalry[3] 30,000 infantry armed with swords, pikes, bows and bamboo rods[3][2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Heavy |
6,000 killed in battle[4] thousands killed while retreating[4] | ||||||||
Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi in the first battle of Panipat in 1526. In this Babur used the Rumi (Ottoman) device of lashing a large number of carts to form a defending wall with breastwork in between to rest guns (Tughlama system of welfare). His artillery was led by Ustad Ali and Mustafa. It marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire. This was one of the earliest battles involving gun powder firearms and field artillery.[5]
The Mughal forces of Babur, the Timurid ruler of Kabulistan, defeated the much larger ruling army of Ibrahim Lodi, Sultan of Delhi. The battle was fought on 21 April near the small village of Panipat, in the present day Indian state of Haryana, an area that has been the site of a number of decisive battles for the control of Northern India since the twelfth century.
The use of guns by troops of Babur helped them claim victory in the battle. The Lodi troops were lagging in terms of artillery skills and the sound emitted by canons frightened the war elephants of Lodi.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Watts 2011, p. 707.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chandra 2009, p. 30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Jadunath Sarkar, Military history of India, p. 50.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jadunath Sarkar, Military history of India, p. 52.
- ↑ "First Battle of Panipat (1526) | Panipat, Haryana | India". Retrieved 2021-10-24.