The Battle of Kafer Qal'eh was a series of clashes which decided the outcome to the Herat Campaign. In its culminating stage the battle bears some resemblances...
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forces consisted of 15,000 riders under Allahyar Khan, the governor of Herat, concentrated around Kafer Qal'eh and another detachment of 12,000 men led...
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The battle of Kafer Qal'eh resulted in a tactical victory for Nader after which Allahyar Khan was pursued and re-engaged. At the height of the battle Nader's...
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This is a list of wars involving Afghanistan. دلجو, عباس (2014). تاریخ باستانی هزاره ها. کابل: انتشارات امیری. ISBN 9936801504. Ritter, William S. (1990)...
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Campaign of 1729 4 May-1 July - Nader Shah of Iran captures Herat. Battle of Kafer Qal'eh 4 May-1 July - Sadozai defeat against Safavids. Battle of Herat...
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The Battle of Khyber Pass (Persian: نبرد تنگه خیبر) was an engagement fought in the mid-eighteenth century between the Afsharid Iran of Nader Shah and...
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The Battle of Yeghevārd, also known as the Battle of Baghavard or Morad Tapeh, was the final major engagement of the Perso-Ottoman War of 1730–1735 where...
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The Battle of Sangan (Persian: نبرد سنگان, romanized: Nabard-e Sangān), was an engagement involving the Loyalist forces of Tahmasp II of Safavid Iran led...
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The Battle of Samarra was the key engagement between the two great generals Nader Shah and Topal Osman Pasha, which led to the siege of Baghdad being...
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The Battle of Damghan (Persian: نبرد دامغان) or Battle of Mehmandoost (Persian: نبرد مهماندوست) was fought on September 29 to October 5, 1729, near the...
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The Battle of Karnal (Persian: نبرد کرنال) (24 February 1739) was a decisive victory for Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran, during...
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the valley of Malayer to give battle in the hope of ending the Persian advance on Hamadan. The Ottoman force of ~30.000 men arrayed in front of the 25.000...
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defeated the Mughals at the Battle of Karnal and would eventually capture the Mughal capital in the aftermath of the battle. Nader Shah's victory against...
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Battle of Zarghan was the last battle of Ashraf Hotaki's career as a statesman. Having been repeatedly bludgeoned by Nader's army through the Battles...
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The Battle of Kars (19 August 1745) was the last major engagement of the Ottoman-Persian War. The battle resulted in the complete and utter destruction...
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The Battle of Murche-Khort (Persian: نبرد مورچهخورت) was the last decisive engagement of Nader's campaign to restore Tahmasp II to the Persian throne...
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The liberation of Isfahan was a direct result of the Battle of Murche-Khort in which the Persian army under Nader Shah attacked and routed Ashraf Hotak's...
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The Battle of Khwar Pass was a failed ambush set up by Ashraf Hotaki during his retreat in the aftermath of his defeat at the Battle of Damghan (1729)...
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The siege of Kandahar began when Nader Shah's Afsharid army invaded southern Afghanistan to topple the last Hotaki stronghold of Loy Kandahar, which was...
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The restoration of Tahmasp II to the Safavid throne took place in the latter part of 1729 by a series of battles fought between Nader, Tahmasp's commander-in-chief...
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The siege of Kars, in 1744, occurred during the Ottoman-Persian War of 1743-1746. Nader Shah, ruler of Persia, laid siege to the city on 29 July 1744....
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The Battle of Kirkuk (Persian: نبرد کرکوک), also known as the Battle of Agh-Darband (Persian: نبرد آقدربند), was the last battle in Nader Shah's Mesopotamian...
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Ottoman–Persian War (1743–1746) (category Military history of Georgia (country))
suppress a revolt. He returned afterwards and routed an Ottoman army at the battle of Kars in August 1745. The war disintegrated. Nader Shah grew insane and...
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Withdrawal through Andalal (1741) (redirect from Battle of Andalal)
However, there is no mention of any pitched battle around Andalal, or anywhere else during the withdrawal, in any of the primary or secondary material...
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Caucasus Campaign (1735) (category Battles involving the Ottoman Empire)
coast of the Black Sea ([citation needed]) descending down into the Caucasus in order to aid Koprulu Pasha's forces. Siege of Ganja Battle of Baghavard...
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campaign (mainly because of an insurrection in southern Persia which required his immediate presence). Battle of Samara Battle of Agh-Darband Nader Shah...
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Nader Shah's Central Asian campaign (category History of Central Asia)
The next battle saw Nader Shah facing the army of Ilbars Khan, which included among others 30,000 Uzbek and Turkmen horsemen. In the battle, the Persian...
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deal with the revolt of the Abdalis of Herat who were provoked into bearing arms against their Persian overlords by Hussein Hotaki of Qandahar. The conflict...
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Nader Shah (redirect from Napoleon of Persia)
South Asia, such as the battles of Herat, Mihmandust, Murche-Khort, Kirkuk, Yeghevārd, Khyber Pass, Karnal, and Kars. Because of his military genius, some...
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After the succession of setbacks the Abdalis of Herat had faced in the campaign Allahyar Khan decided to sully out for a last engagement to decide the...
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