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{{Short description|1398 battle}}
{{about|the Timurid sacking of Delhi in 1398|the 18th century Afghan sack of Delhi|Sack of Delhi (1757)}}
{{infobox military conflict
| conflict          = Sack of Delhi
| image             = File:Timur invasion of India in 1397-1399.png
| caption           = Map showing Timur's Invasion of India 1397-1399
| partof            = [[Timurid conquests and invasions]] and campaigns of [[Timur]]
| date              = 1398
| place             = [[Delhi]], [[Medieval India|India]]
| result            = [[Timurid Empire|Timurid]] victory
| combatant1        = {{flagicon image|Timurid.svg}} [[Timurid Empire]]
| combatant2        = [[File:Delhi Sultanate Flag.svg|border|22px]] [[Delhi Sultanate]]
| strength1         = 90,000
| strength2         = Unknown
| casualties1       = Unknown
| casualties2       =
}}
The '''Sack of Delhi''' was a battle between [[Timur]] – founder of the [[Timurid Empire]] – and the [[Delhi Sultanate]].<ref name="Smith 1920">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Vincent A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2gxAQAAMAAJ |title=The Oxford History of India: From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911 |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1920 |page=252}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Timurid conquests and invasions]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Timur]]
[[Category:Battles of Timur]]
[[Category:Battles involving the Timurid Empire]]
[[Category:Battles involving the Delhi Sultanate]]
[[Category:Battles of Pir Muhammad (son of Jahangir)]]
[[Category:Military history of the Timurid Empire]]
[[Category:Looting in India]]
[[Category:Military history of Delhi]]