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Siege of Gurdaspur

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Date
  
1715

Location
  
Gurdaspur

Result
  
Mughal Victory. Banda singh bahadur was captured alive along with other followers after 8 months of siege.

The Siege of Gurdaspur of 1715 was a major campaign of the new Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar in present-day India.

Aftermath

Banda and his followers were then taken to Delhi and executed by the orders of Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar in the year 1716, along with a large number of Sikhs who were rounded up by the Mughal army from villages and towns on the March back to Delhi.

References

Siege of Gurdaspur Wikipedia


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