Siege of Shivneri Fort

Second Siege of Shivneri Fort (1678)
Part of Mughal–Maratha Wars
Date April 1678 Location Shivneri Fort Result Mughal victory
Belligerents
Maratha Empire	Mughal Empire
Commanders and leaders
Shivaji	Abdul Aziz Khan Yahya Khan
Strength
300 men	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Most were killed	Unknown

The Second Siege of Shivneri Fort was a military engagement between the Mughal Army and the Maratha Army in Shivneri Fort. The Mughals repulsed the Marathas who attempted to take the fort.^{[ citation needed ]}

Siege

A few days after the return of Shivaji to Panhala in March, Maratha troops attacked a place called Mungi-Pattan on the Godavari River, 30 miles south of Aurangabad. It was then, in the next month, that the Marathas attempted to attack Shivneri Fort and captured it. They stationed themselves in the village of Junnar at its foot and, at night, tried to scale the walls with a force of 300 men with nooses and rope ladders. However, the Mughal commander, Abdul Aziz Khan, an expert Qiladar, though he had sent his son and followers to reinforce the Mughal general Yahya Khan in the village, personally slew all the Maratha infantry with a few men who had entered the fort. On the next day, he chased the remaining Maratha troops who hid in the hills below the fort, capturing them but releasing them with gifts, sending a message to Shivaji saying: ^{[1] [2]}

So long as I am Qiladar, you will never take this fort.

References

1. Shyam Singh Shashi (1996), Encyclopaedia Indica: Shivaji as Warrior and Administrator, Anmol Publications, p. 304.
2. Charles Augustus Kincaid (1950), Charles Augustus Kincaid, The Story of the Great King, p. 92.