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Kala Amb (Third Battle of Panipat memorial)
Also known as Kala Amb memorial
Kala Amb (the Black Mango Tree) is the open ground about eight kilometres north of Panipat city where the Third Battle of Panipat was fought on 14 January 1761 between the Maratha Confederacy under Sadashivrao Bhau and the Afghan army of Ahmad Shah Durrani. About forty thousand Marathas and their camp-followers died in a single day. The commemorative obelisk, memorial park and small museum here were built around 1961 for the bicentenary; the actual black mango tree the Marathas camped under died in the nineteenth century.
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 29.457, 76.983
Connections (2)
- Site withinPanipat
Kala Amb lies about 8 km north of Panipat city on the Third Battle of Panipat field.
- Won battle atAhmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani crushed the Maratha army under Sadashivrao Bhau at Kala Amb on 14 January 1761 — the Third Battle of Panipat. About forty thousand Marathas including Sadashivrao, Vishwasrao (son of the Peshwa) and their senior commanders died in the day-long engagement; the Maratha camp of some three hundred thousand noncombatants was overrun afterwards. The battle ended Maratha ambitions on Delhi for a generation and left the political vacuum the East India Company moved into after Plassey (1757) and Buxar (1764).
Sources
Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).
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