Battle of Khajwa

1659 CE.

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The Battle of Khajuha was fought on January 5, 1659, between the newly crowned Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and Shah Shuja who also declared himself Mughal Emperor in Bengal. Shuja's army rested by the tank of Khajwa, about 30 miles to the west of Fatehpur- Haswa in'the Allahabad District, between the Ganges and the Jumna.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Khajwa, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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