Prithvi Narayan Shah Tularam Pande † Vamsharaj Pande Surapratap Shah
Jaya Prakash Malla and his nobles Captain Kinloch
Strength
18,000
7,000
Gorkha
Kathmandu
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Location in present-day Nepal
Jaya Prakash Malla (reigned 1736-1768), last king of KathmanduKathmandu Durbar Square, where the main battle took place, as it looked in 1852
The Battle of Kathmandu (Nepali: काठमाडौंको युद्ध) or siege of Kathmandu or siege of Kantipur occurred during the Unification of Nepal.[1] It was fought in Kathmandu in 1768, and resulted in the defeat of its king Jaya Prakash Malla by conquerors Prithvi Narayan Shah, king of the adjoining Gorkha Kingdom.
Shah's victory marked the establishment of the Shah dynasty in Nepal and the end of the rule of the indigenous Newars.[2] The Newars, lost to the Gorkhalis who were expanding their kingdom.[3]
^Hamilton, Francis Buchanan (1819). An Account of the Kingdom Of Nepal and of the Territories Annexed to This Dominion by the House of Gorkha. Edinburgh: Longman. Retrieved 11 November 2012. Page 7.
^Waller, Derek J. (2004). The Pundits: British Exploration Of Tibet And Central Asia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 171. ISBN 9780813191003.
^Brown, Percy (1912). Picturesque Nepal. London: Adam and Charles Black. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
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