About: Ahom Army

An Entity of Type: agent, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Ahom Army consisted of cavalry, infantry as well as naval units based on the Paik system militia of the Ahom kingdom (1228 - 1824). The kingdom did not have standing army units of professional soldiers till late 18th and early 19th centuries, when Purnandan Burhagohain raised one after noticing the effectiveness of Captain Thomas Welsh's sepoys in subjugating the Moamoria rebellion.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Ahom Army consisted of cavalry, infantry as well as naval units based on the Paik system militia of the Ahom kingdom (1228 - 1824). The kingdom did not have standing army units of professional soldiers till late 18th and early 19th centuries, when Purnandan Burhagohain raised one after noticing the effectiveness of Captain Thomas Welsh's sepoys in subjugating the Moamoria rebellion. The Ahom Army had various confrontations the most significant ones were against the west, from Bengal Sultans and the Mughal Empire; and against the south from the Konbaung dynasty (Burma). Its won decisive victories against the forces led by Turbak (1532), the Mughal Empire in the Battle of Saraighat (1671), and the final Battle of Itakhuli (1682) that expelled the Mughal forces from Assam. Its major failures were against the army of Chilarai (1553), the forces led by Mir Jumla II (1662), and finally the Burmese invasions of Assam (1817, 1819, 1821). Though the Ahom kingdom could withstand all invasions from the west, it fell to the single significant challenge from the south and it was destroyed. (en)
dbo:militaryUnitSize
  • At peak 4,00,000 were raised to invade to bengal
dbo:notableCommander
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 47604335 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3779 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1095217493 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:battles
  • Saraighat, Itakhuli etc. (en)
dbp:country
  • Assam, North East India (en)
dbp:dates
  • During Ahom Era (en)
dbp:notableCommanders
dbp:size
  • At peak 4,00,000 were raised to invade to bengal (en)
dbp:type
  • Royal Army (en)
dbp:unitName
  • Ahom Army (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Ahom Army consisted of cavalry, infantry as well as naval units based on the Paik system militia of the Ahom kingdom (1228 - 1824). The kingdom did not have standing army units of professional soldiers till late 18th and early 19th centuries, when Purnandan Burhagohain raised one after noticing the effectiveness of Captain Thomas Welsh's sepoys in subjugating the Moamoria rebellion. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Ahom Army (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Ahom Army (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License