Founder of the Afghan Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)
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He carved an empire from the shattered remains of Nader Shah's domain and spent the next quarter-century marching armies across three continents. The sack of Delhi, the annihilation at Panipat, fifteen major campaigns in twenty-five years — Afghanistan's founding figure was a man who barely stopped moving.
Born around 1720, Ahmad Khan Abdali rode with Nader Shah until the conqueror's assassination in 1747 fractured the Afsharid Empire. He seized the moment, took the name Durrani, and was crowned near Kandahar that same year. What followed was relentless: he invaded the Mughal Empire in 1748 and didn't stop for two decades, annexing Punjab and Kashmir, occupying Delhi in 1757, and commanding the Third Battle of Panipat — the largest clash of the eighteenth century — where Maratha armies were destroyed. Beyond India he fought the Afsharids in Khorasan, clashed with the Khanate of Bukhara in Afghan…
Sourced, dated quotes from Ahmad Shah Durrani
Suddenly the breeze of victory began to blow, and as willed by Allah,the wretched Deccanis (Maratha's) suffered utter defeat.
But the Jat peasantry were determined that it was over their corpses that the ravager should enter the sacred capital of Braja.
The Hindu Bethlehem now lay utterly prostrate before the invaders.
Next morning the sun revealed a horrid spectacle on the vast plain south of PAnipat.
Moving a fortnight behind his vanguard, the AbdAli king himself came upon the scene. He had stormed Ballabhgarh on 3rd March and halted there for two days.
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