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for loot and plunder. However, while retreating to Delhi, Abdali was kept informed of the Marathas' march. The advance guard of the Marathas was caught and annihilated. The defeat panicked Holkar into a retreat towards
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and engage the invading Afghans until the arrival of reinforcements. A Maratha contingent was defeated by Jahan Khan near Rewari on 11 February.
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river. On the night of 26–27 February, he learned that the Afghans had entered Delhi two days earlier. He sacked the town of
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and voluntarily handed him the command of the Maratha army on 24 January, Holkar ordered the Marathas to return to
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and encamped there, in order to prepare for another fresh Maratha army coming from Deccan as advised by
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and soon rendezvoused with the retreating families that were heading for
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The Maratha troops led by Holkar sighted the Afghans in the vicinity of
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With Holkar's defeat, the victorious Afghans marched to
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on March 1, Holkar spent 3–4 days attempting to find a
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Index

Afghan–Maratha conflicts
Sikandrabad

Durrani Empire
Kingdom of Rohilkhand
Maratha Confederacy

Ahmed Shah

Najib ad-Dawlah

Malhar Rao Holkar
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Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani
Lahore (1748)
Manupur (1748)
Lahore (1752)
Narela (1757)
Delhi (1757)
Amritsar (1757)
Mahilpur (1757)
Taraori (1759)
Barari Ghat (1760)
Sikandarabad (1760)
Kunjpura (1760)
Samalkha (1760)
Meerut (1760)
Panipat (1761)

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