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The Allahabad Fort was constructed by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1583. Abu'l-Fazl, in his Akbarnama writes: [2]. For a long time [Akbar's] desire was to found a great city in the town of Piyag [Prayag], where the rivers Ganges and Jamna join, and which is regarded by the people of India with much reverence, and which is a place of pilgrimage for the ascetics of that country, and to build a ...
Akbar's general, Shahbaz Khan, attacked this fort in October 1577 and after the siege of 6 months, he was able to capture the fort in April 1578. But it was recaptured by Pratap in 1583. In 1818, an armed band of sanyasis formed a garrison to protect the fort, but was convinced [ clarification needed ] by James Tod and the fort was taken over ...
The siege of Chittorgarh (23 October 1567 – 23 February 1568) was the military expedition of the Mughal Empire under Akbar against the Mewar kingdom that commenced in 1567 during which the Mughals successfully captured the fort of Chittorgarh after a hard-pressed siege which lasted for several months.
The historical Ajmer fort where the museum is housed is popularly called Akbari fort as it was constructed by Mughal emperor Akbar to honour the sufi saint Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chisti. This was the fort where Jahangir met Sir Thoma Roe, a milestone meeting that paved the path of British presence in India. [citation needed]
Asirgarh Fort is an Indian fortress situated in the Satpura Range about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the city of Burhanpur, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.The fort is said to date to the early 15th-century and commands a pass through the Satpuras connecting the valleys of the Narmada and Tapti rivers, one of the most important routes from northern India to the Deccan, it was known as ...
Hari Parbat Fort is a historical fortification atop the Hari Parbat hill in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The fort was built during the late 18th/early 19th century by Atta Mohammad Khan, governor of Kashmir under Durrani rule. The fort's rampart dates earlier to the late 16th century, from a non-extant fortification built by Mughal ...
The corresponding text passage can be found in Akbar-nāma III: 120-135 and thus in the part of the manuscript that is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Since there is no evidence that an illustration from this part of the manuscript is missing, the affiliation to the 1st Akbar-nāma can only be valid to a limited extent. This is probably a ...
The fort was made of mud and was destroyed in 1241 by the Mongols during their invasion of Lahore. [6] A new fort was constructed in 1267 at the site by Sultan Balban of the Mamluk dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate. [7] The re-built fort was destroyed in 1398 by the invading forces of Timur, only to be rebuilt by Mubarak Shah Sayyid in 1421. [8]