Battle of Ghazni (998)

Battle of Ghazni

Date	March, 998
Location	Ghazni, Afghanistan
Result	Victory of Mahmud

Commanders and leaders

Mahmud

Ismail (POW)

The Battle of Ghazni was fought in 998 between the rival Ghaznavid forces of Amir Ismail and the rebel forces of his older brother Mahmud of Ghazni.^[1]

On his death-bed Amir Sabuktigin had designated Ismail as his successor while Mahmud, the older brother who was involved in the Samanids civil war, was stationed in Nishapur.^[1]

Upon receiving these news Mahmud contested Ismail's right to the throne and divested his charge of Nishapur to his uncle Borghuz and younger brother Nur-ud-Din Yusuf and marched upon Ghazni. Both armies met at Ghazni, Ismail's containing elephants.^[1] The battle was a long, drawn out affair, but at an opportune moment Mahmud charged Ismail's center which broke up.^[1] Mahmud would capture his brother and take the crown. Ismail spent the rest of his life in comfortable captivity.

Notes

1 2 3 4 Kaushik Roy, Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE, (Routledge, 2015), 88.

References

Kaushik Roy, Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE, Routledge, 2015.

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