First Battle of Katwa

First Battle of Katwa
	Part of Second Maratha invasion of Bengal
Date	1744 CE
Location	Katwa
Result	Bengal victory
Belligerents
Bengal Subah	Maratha Confederacy
Commanders and leaders
Ali-Vardi Khan; Ghulam Mustafa Khan; Mirza Beg	Bhaskar Pant; Rudrasimha Pindari; Shesh Rao Gusain; Mir Habib
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

The First Battle of Katwa occurred between the Bengal Subah and Maratha Confederacy in 1744. The Marathas initially attacked and captured Katwa and Hooghly in Bengal. The Nawab of Bengal Alivardi Khan, using conscripted tribal and peasant levies from Birbhum, responded with a direct attack on the Maratha camp at Katwa from the rear in nightfall and the entire Maratha Army was evacuated out of Bengal on 17 September 1742, believing a much larger force had charged them. The Maratha commander Bhaskar Pant was trecherously killed.^[1]

References

^ Jacques, Tony (2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. Greenwood Press. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26.

[katwa-1] Jacques, Tony (2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. Greenwood Press. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26.

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First Battle of Katwa

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