Victory over English Forces and the Valley by Prithivi Narayan Shah

Victory over English forces

Having captured kirtipur, the gorkhlese forces were going to attack kantipur king Jaya Prakash Malla, having no other way out, sought help from the British East India Company. Economic blockade of the valley had also affected the English trade with the valley and Tibet. Capuchin clergymen in Kathmandu were also scared by the Gorkhalese advancements. British East India Company sent a letter of threat to prithvi narayan shah lift the economic blockade. When it was not obeyed, they dispatched a large force of about 2400 soldiers under the commandership of captain kinloch for the help of Jaya Prithvi Narayan Shah who knew all this in advance, sent 5000 soidiers under the commarndership of Birbhadra Upadhyay and Banshu Gurung. Later it was reinforced another force comprising 700 soldiers led by Banshraj Pandey and Shreeharsha Panta. On 24 kartik 1824 (9 Nov, 1767) English forces were attacked suddenly in sindhuli and were badly defeated. The Gorkhaless took hold of 500 guns of the English force in the battle.

 Victory over the valley

Encouraged by their success at kirtipur, the gorkhalese forces surrounded the Basantapur Palace of Kantipur from three sides at about midnight on 13th aswin 1825 BS (28 Sep 1768 AD). Jaya Prakash Malla along with his people was busy in celebrating the Indra Jatra festival. The attack was sudden. So Kantipuri forces surrendered without resistance. The king, who would get very little sympathy from his subjects, fled to Patan seeking asylum there. Patan was captured on 24th of the same month (9 Oct 1768 AD). Jaya Prakash Malla, the king of the Kantipur and Tejnarsingh Malla, the king of the patan went to Bhaktapur for the protection  from its king Ranjit Malla. On 1st mangsir 1826 BS (16 Nov 1769) the Gorkhalese force had the victory on bhaktapur in the battle fought for 3 days. Jaya Prakash Malla who was wounded in the battle died at Aryaghat while Tejnarsingh Malla was taken to the prison. Ranjit Malla, Prithvi Narayan Shah's friend's father was sent to banaras at this (Ranjit Malla's ) wish. In this way the victorious march to the Kathmandu valley ended.

Victory Campaign directed to the west and east

After capturing the Kathmandu valley, King Prithivi Narayan Shah diverted his attention to the Chaubise states of the western Nepal. The Gorkhalese forces captured Lamjung, Tanahun, and kaski but lost humiliatingly when Palpa and Pravat taking these three states in their side defended jointly in Tanahun. Aware of the bad defeat of his force, King Prithivi Narayan Shah abandoned his wishful plan of attacking the western states and made advances to the east. He extended his boundary up to the Mechi River by capturing Chaudandi, Vijayapur and part of Illam. Prithivi Narayan Shah died on 1^st Magh 1831 BS before he could make next attempts in the west. The victory campaigns were further continued by his successors such as Pratap Singh Shah, Rajendra Laxmi and Bahadur Shah.