As far as losses are concerned, Afghans too suffered heavily in the Third Battle of Panipat.

Internally, the Taiping Rebellion ( 1851 – 1864 ), a quasi-Christian religious movement led by the " Heavenly King " Hong Xiuquan, would raid roughly a third of Chinese territory for over a decade until they were finally crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking in 1864.

Francis II () ( 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835 ) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz.

In 1805, Napoleon planned to invade Britain, but a renewed British alliance with Russia and Austria ( Third Coalition ), forced him to turn his attention towards the continent, while at the same time failure to lure the superior British fleet away from the English Channel, ending in a decisive French defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October put an end to hopes of an invasion of Britain.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

* 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.

* 1864 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

* 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marhatas.

* 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.

* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.

In response to the defeat of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem at the Battle of Hattin, Gregory issued the papal bull Audita tremendi calling for the Third Crusade.

* 1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

* 1650 – Third English Civil War: in the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.

* 1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World.

Third Reich | German troops by the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, after the Battle of France | 1940 fall of France.

* May 27 – The Third Battle of the Aisne commences.

** WWI: Third Battle of Gaza: United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.

* January 18 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.

* February 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union reconquers Kharkov, but is later driven out in the Third Battle of Kharkov

* 1018: the Third Goryeo-Khitan War ; the Korean General Gang Gam-chan inflicted heavy losses to Khitan forces at the Battle of Kwiju.

* January 14 – Third Battle of Panipat: The Marathas are defeated by the Afghans.

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* The Third Battle of Panipat ( 1761 ), between the Durrani Empire and the Maratha Empire, resulting in a Durrani victory

He may have been fortuitously aided at this time by the faraway Third Battle of Panipat, in which the Marathas suffered a major defeat.

After the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761 in which the Marathas were defeated, the writ of the Afghans prevailed throughout Punjab.

Durrani Empire | Durrani Emirate at its height under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Durrani, prior to the Third Battle of Panipat.

In 1761, the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat to Abdali's Afghan Durrani empire which halted their imperial expansion.

Covering a large part of the subcontinent, the Maratha Empire kept the British forces at bay during the 18th century, until the Third Battle of Panipat following which Marathas never fought as a single unit.

Losses at the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761 suspended further expansion of the empire in the North-west and reduced the power of the Peshwas.

Huge armies of Muslim forces and Marathas collided with each other on 14 January 1761 in the Third Battle of Panipat.

Mahadaji was instrumental in resurrecting Maratha power after the debacle of the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761, and rose to become a trusted lieutenant of the Peshwa, leader of the Maratha Empire, as well as the Mughal king Shah Alam II.

In early 1771, ten years after the collapse of Maratha supremacy in North India following the Third Battle of Panipat, Mahadji recaptured Delhi and installed Shah Alam II as the puppet ruler on the Mughal throne.

Shuja-ud-Daula served as the leading Grand Vizier of the Mughal Empire during the Third Battle of Panipat, he was also the Nawab of Awadh, and a loyal ally of Shah Alam II.

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File: The Third battle of Panipat 13 January 1761. jpg | Nawabs in battle during the Battle of Panipat ( 1761 )

Baji Rao and his son, Balaji Baji Rao, oversaw the period of greatest Maratha expansion ( see map at right ), brought to an end by the Maratha's defeat by an Afghan army at the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761.

In 1761 the Marath army marched for Third Battle Of Panipat from the city.

However, during the Third battle of Panipat which was held on 14 January 1761, he was responsible for certain decisions which were partially responsible for the defeat of the Marathas against Ahmad Shah Abdali.

During the forays into India by Ahmad Shah Abdali ( also known as Ahmad Shah Durrani, Emir of Afghanistan ) c 1750s – 60s, a contingent of Tareens / Tarins settled in the Hazara region of the North-West Frontier ( now Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa ) came into prominence for the role they played at the Third Battle of Panipat, January 1761, against the Marhatta Confederacy.

His elder brother Vishwasrao had died in the Third Battle of Panipat and the second brother Madhavrao succeeded his father after his death.