Thread by @abhishekanandji

On this day in 1540 CE, the greatest warrior of the motherland, Maharana Pratap was born. Maharana not just stopped Mughal advance, but forced them to retreat and even surrender in thousands. Here's a detailed #Thread on Battle of Dewar/Dewair 1582, ignored by many historians:

With an army of merely 16,000, including cavalry and infantry, Maharana not only defeated Mughals but also forced 36,000 of their soldiers to surrender.
What happens during the Battle of Dewair/Diver
In 1582, on the day of Vijayadashami (Dussehra), the Battle of Dewair started.

Maharana was confident with his strategy of taking on the Mughals and regain lost territory.
He divided his army into two groups: one unit was led by himself and the other by his son, Amar Singh. In this war, the Mughal army was led by Akbar’s uncle Sultan Khan. +

Maharana and his army attacked the Mughal outpost in the village of Dewair, situated about 40 km northeast of Kumbhalgarh.One of the memorable incidents during the Battle of Dewair was when Amar Singh attacked the Mughal commander Sultan Khan with a spear.

The spear rammed both his body and the horse into the ground. The blow was so severe that none of the Mughal army soldiers was able to remove the spear from his body. Another memorable incident from the Battle of Dewair was when Maharana Pratap cut Mughal commander Bahlol Khan

and his horse into two pieces. It is after this incident; the saying became famous that,

The warriors of Mewar cut the rider along with the horse in a single blow.

Aftermath of Battle of Dewair
Seeing their fellow soldiers in tatters, the remaining 36,000 soldiers of the Mughal

army surrendered before Maharana Pratap. All 36 garrisons (check posts) of Mughals in Mewar were closed. Thus, the Battle of Dewair was a resounding success. In one short campaign, Pratap recovered the whole of Mewar except Chittor, Ajmer, Mandalgarh, lost in his father’s time.

Even after Dewair, Akbar continued to send his army against him but failed every single time. He was so disappointed with his commanders after the successive defeats that he arrived in Mewar to defeat Maharana. However, after trying relentlessly for six months, returned to Agra.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod, in his magnum opus Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, describes this battle as:
Huldighat (Haldighati) is the Thermopylae of Mewar ; the field of Deweir (Dewair/Diver) is her Marathon.
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