01-05-2009, 08:32 AM
Unable to resist the immense riches of Delhi, Abdali stormed the city again. On <b>January 13, 1761,</b> he took on the Maratha confederation, and humbled the Marathas in the third and final battle of Panipat, rooting out the possiblity of Maratha dominion over North India, at least for the next decade.