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Ghazni, Battle of

Years: 1148 - 1148

The Battle of Ghazni is fought in 1148 between the Ghurid army of Sayf al-Din Suri and the army of the Ghaznavid Sultan Bahram-Shah of Ghazna.

The Ghurid ruler defeats Bahram-Shah and takes the city while Bahram-Shah flees to India.

Bahram-Shah returns the next year and defeats and kills Sayf al-Din Suri and retakes Ghazni.

“History is a vast early warning system.”

― Norman Cousins, Saturday Review, April 15, 1978