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====Battle of Kirtipur====
[[File:Gorkha3.jpg|thumb|Gorkhali soldiers preparing war against Kathmandu Valley]]
Despite his initial resentment that the valley kings were well prepared and the Gorkhalis were not, ''Kaji'' Kalu Pande agreed for a battle against the kingdom of [[Kirtipur]] in the [[Kathmandu valley]] on being insisted by the king. The Gorkhalis had set up a base in Naikap to mount their assaults on Kirtipur. They were armed with swords, bows and arrows and [[musket]]s.<ref>Vansittart, Eden (1896). ''Notes on Nepal''. Asian Educational Services. {{ISBN|978-81-206-0774-3}}. Page 34.</ref> The two forces fought on the plain of ''Tyangla Phant'' in the northwest of Kirtipur. Surapratap Shah, the king's brother, lost his right eye to an arrow while scaling the city wall. The Gorkhali commander ''Kaji'' Kalu Pande was surrounded and killed, and the Gorkhali king himself narrowly escaped with his life into the surrounding hills disguised as a saint.<ref>{{cite news |last=Majupuria |first=Trilok Chandra |title=Kirtipur: The Ancient Town on the Hill |url=http://www.nepal-traveller.com/index.php?action=articledetail&id=259 |access-date=18 October 2012 |newspaper=Nepal Traveller |date=March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117014432/http://www.nepal-traveller.com/index.php?action=articledetail&id=259 |archive-date=17 November 2015 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wright |first=Daniel |url=https://archive.org/stream/HistoryOfNepal/HistoryOfNepaldanielWright#page/n269/mode/2up |title=History of Nepal |publisher=New Delhi: Asian Educational Services |year=1990 |access-date=7 November 2012}} Page 227.</ref> In 1767, King Prithvi Narayan Shah sent his army to attack Kirtipur for a third time under the command of Surapratap. In response, the three kings of the valley joined forces and sent their troops to the relief of Kirtipur, but they could not dislodge the Gorkhalis from their positions. A noble of Lalitpur named Danuvanta crossed over to Shah's side and treacherously let the Gorkhalis into the town.<ref name="Kirkpatrick 1811"/><ref>{{cite news |title= The city of good deeds |url= http://nepalitimes.com/issue/18/Culture/9018 |access-date= 18 October 2012 |newspaper= Nepali Times |date= 24–30 November 2000 |archive-date= 1 March 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120301023211/http://nepalitimes.com/issue/18/Culture/9018 |url-status= live }}</ref>