| The Battle of Bhaktapur | |||||||
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| Part of Unification of Nepal | |||||||
 Bhaktapur Durbar Square, the royal palace complex, in 1854. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of Bhaktapur | Kingdom of Gorkha | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ranajit Malla Jayaprakash Malla Chautara Bhagiram Pradhananga Abadhutish Malla |
Prithvi Narayan Shah Vamsharaj Pande Surapratap Shah Swarup Singh Karki | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3,000–8,000 | 20,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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2,001 killed 501 houses set on fire | Unknown | ||||||
Gorkha
Bhaktapur
Location in present-day Nepal
The Battle of Bhaktapur was the final campaign in the Gorkha conquest of Nepal.[1] It took place in Bhaktapur in 1769, and resulted in the victory of the Gorkhali king Prithvi Narayan Shah, giving him control of the entire Kathmandu Valley and adjoining areas.
Shah thus established the Shah dynasty in Nepal, and the rule of Newar Mallas came to an end.[2] The defeated king of Bhaktapur, Ranajit Malla, was sent into exile in India.[3][4]
- ^ Hamilton, Francis Buchanan (1819). An Account of the Kingdom Of Nepal and of the Territories Annexed to This Dominion by the House of Gorkha. Edinburgh: Longman. Retrieved 22 November 2012. Page 186.
- ^ Waller, Derek J. (2004). The Pundits: British Exploration Of Tibet And Central Asia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 171. ISBN 9780813191003.
- ^ Giuseppe, Father (1799). Account of the Kingdom of Nepal. London: Vernor and Hood. p. 322. Retrieved November 22, 2012.
- ^ Malla, Sampada & Rai, Dinesh (January 2006). "Where Have All The Mallas Gone?: The Descendants of the Mallas". ECS Nepal. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2012.