Battle of Peshawar (1001)
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For other uses of "Battle of Peshawar", see Battle of Peshawar (disambiguation).
The Battle of Peshawar was fought on 27 November 1001 between the Ghaznavid army of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Hindu Shahi army of Jayapala, near Peshawar. Jayapala was defeated and captured, and as a result of the humiliation of the defeat, he later immolated himself in a funeral pyre. This is the first of many major battles in the expansion of the Ghaznavid Empire into the Indian subcontinent by Mahmud.
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Battle of Peshawar | |||||||||
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Part of the Ghaznavid campaigns in India | |||||||||
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Ghaznavid Empire | Hindu Shahi | ||||||||
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Mahmud of Ghazni | Jayapala (POW) | ||||||||
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15,000 cavalry |
12,000 cavalry 30000 infantry 300 elephants | ||||||||
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5,000 to 15,000 | |||||||||
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