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| Safavid Abdali War | |||||||||
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| Part of Nader's Campaigns | |||||||||
 A military diagram demonstrating the key manoeuvres in the campaign | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Safavid loyalists |
 Abdali Pashtuns (Afghans) | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Nader (WIA) |
Allahyar Khan Abdali Zulfaqar Khan Abdali | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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Unknown, comparable to the Abdali: ~20,000 |
27,000[1]
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Moderate | Heavy | ||||||||
The Campaign of Herat consisted of a series of intermittent and fluid engagements culminating in the finale of Nader's military operations against the Abdali Pashtuns. Nader having recently concluded a successful campaign against his own monarch and prince, the badly humiliated Tahmasp II, set out from Mashad on 4 May 1729, making sure that the Shah also accompanied him on this journey where he could be kept under close supervision.
The conflict is also important because it helped develop Nader's tactics against light cavalry armies, something that would be important at the Battle of Damghan (1729), where the Hotaki Pashtuns were given a rude introduction to modern warfare by Nader's well-drilled army.
- ^ Moghtader, Gholam-Hussein(2008). The Great Battles of Nader Shah,p. 16. Donyaye Ketab