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The Life and Times of Babur

Babur fought his third and final battle in Hindustan in May of 1529 when he confronted an Afghan force on the eve of the war. He used his cannons and his match lock men to fix the Afghans, who by this time had actually acquired their own cannons from Bengal via the Portuguese. And it breaks the mold from the battles of Pani Patan Kannua and shows us that Babur was quite tactically adaptive.

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