Panipat
April 21 1526 Strategic Context Babur descendant of both Tamerlane and Genghis Khan attempts to assert his manifest authority by seizing Samarkand but fails in the end and settles in the Kabul valley In 1514 he realizes that there are too many mighty factions fighting for supremacy to the west and begins to look east Babur builds up his strength and invades northwestern India in 1525 at the expense of the Delhi Sultanate ruled by the increasingly unpopular Ibrahim Lodi dynasty Ibrahim leads an army from Delhi and finds Baburs Mughal army occupying a firm defensive position near the town of Panipat in 1526 For a week the two armies wait for the other to launch an attack Babur eventually orders a night raid which fails in disorder However the Mughals poor performance convinces Ibrahim to attack the next day
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