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| conflict = Battle of Kup
| partof = [[Indian Campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani]]
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| date = 5 February 1762<ref name =eos/>
| place = Kup
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| result = Afghan victory<ref name="landford"/><ref name="gupta"/>
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| combatant1 = [[File:Kattar Dhal Talwar.jpg|23px]] [[Sikh Confederacy]]
| combatant2 = [[File:Abdali flag.png|40px]] [[Durrani Empire]]
| commander1 = [[Jassa Singh Ahluwalia]] [[Charat Singh]]
| commander2 = [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] Jahan Khan<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Ganda |title=Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan |pages=275-280 |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5426/page/n297/mode/1up}}</ref> Shah Wali Khan<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Ganda |title=Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan |pages=275-280 |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5426/page/n297/mode/1up}}</ref> [[Zain Khan Sirhindi]]<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan" /> Bhikhan Khan<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan" /> Murtaza Khan Baraich<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan" /> Qasim Khan Marhal<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan" /> Lachhmi Narayan<ref name="Ahmad Shah Durrani,father of modern Afghanistan" />
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| strength1 = 30,000<ref name="landford"/>
| strength2 = 40,000<ref name="singh" />
| casualties1 = 10,000 to 20,000<ref name="gupta"/><ref name="landford"/>
| casualties2 = 10,000<ref name="singh" />
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The '''Battle of Kup''' was fought on 5 February 1762, between the [[Durrani Empire|Afghan]] forces of [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] and the [[Sikhs]], under the command of [[Jassa Singh Ahluwalia]] and [[Charat Singh]].<ref name=eos>{{cite web |url=http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/index.aspx |title=Vadda Ghallurghara |last1=Bhatia |first1=Sardar Singh |date= |website=Encyclopaedia of Sikhism |publisher=Punjabi University Patiala|access-date=24 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="singh" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Ganda |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5426/page/n302/mode/2up |title=Ahmed Shah Durrani Father of Modern Afghanistan |publisher=Asia Publishing House |year=1959 |page=279}}</ref> Ahmad Shah Durrani with around 40,000 Soldiers reached [[Malerkotla]], west of [[Sirhind]], where nearly 30,000 Sikh men, women, children and elderly were encamped.<ref name="landford"/> With surprise attack, the Sikhs threw a human shield around civilians as protection and fought the battle killing several thousand Afghans. However, Abdali was able to break the ring and carried out a full scale massacre of the Sikh civilians.<ref name="gupta"/> Ahmad Shah's forces killed several thousand Sikhs, and the surviving Sikhs fled to [[Barnala]]. As many as 10,000 to 20,000 Sikh men, women, elderly and children were killed in what is known as the second Sikh holocaust ([[Vadda Ghalughara]]).<ref name="landford">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxwIDgAAQBAJ&q=1762+sikhs+afghans&pg=PA21|title=Afghanistan at War: From the 18th-Century Durrani Dynasty to the 21st Century|page=21|author=Lansford, Tom|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598847604|year=2017}}</ref><ref name="gupta">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SluAAAAMAAJ|title=History of the Sikhs, Volume 1|author=Gupta, Hari Ram|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal|isbn=9788121505406|year=2001}}</ref><ref name="singh">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MD9uAAAAMAAJ|title=A History of the Sikhs: 1469-1838|author=Singh, Khushwant|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195673081|year=2004}}</ref>

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[[Category:Conflicts in 1762|Kup]]
[[Category:1762 in India]]
[[Category:Battles involving the Sikhs|Kup]]

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