What the records say
- When
- 6 Nov 1764
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 25.57° N, 83.98° E
- Description
- _War between Alliance (Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daulah and Shah Alam || ) and British
Battle of Buxar
1764 battle of the Bengal War
The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22-23 October 1764, between the forces of the British East India Company (EIC), under the command of Major Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and his allies: Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal; Maharaja Balwant Singh of Benares; and Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh and Grand Vizier to the Emperor.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Mughals are defeated at the Battle of Buxar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire des Britanniques de Hector Munro à la bataille de Buxar sur une coalition réunissant le nabab du Bengale Mir Kasim, le nabab d’Oudh”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “разгром англичанами при Буксаре соединённых сил бенгальского наваба Мир Касима, наваба Ауда Шуджи ад-Даулы и афганцев”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page