<Li> 500 war elephants </Li> <P> The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and forces of Muslim invader Akbar . Hemu had conquered the states of Delhi and Agra a few months earlier by defeating the Mughals led by Tardi Beg Khan at the Battle of Delhi and proclaimed himself Raja Vikramaditya . Akbar and his guardian, Bairam Khan who lost Agra and Delhi, had marched to Panipat to reclaim the lost territories . The two armies clashed at Panipat not far from the site of the First Battle of Panipat of 1526 . </P> <P> Although Hemu had lost his artillery to the Mughals before the battle, his forces held the numerical superiority . However, Hemu was wounded by a chance arrow in the middle of the battle and fell unconscious . Seeing their leader going down, his army panicked and dispersed . Hemu was captured and subsequently beheaded for going against the caliphate . The battle ended in a decisive victory for Akbar . </P> <P> Humayun, the successor of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, had lost his inheritance when he was chased out of India by Sher Shah Suri who established the Sur Empire in 1540 . Delhi and Agra fell into Sher Shah's hands, but he died soon after in 1545 at Kalinjar . He was succeeded by his younger son, Islam Shah Suri, who was a capable ruler . However, upon his death in 1553, the Sur Empire was caught up in a succession battle and was plagued by rebellion and the secession of provinces . Humayun made use of this discord to recapture what was lost and on 23 July 1555, the Mughals defeated Sikandar Shah Suri and finally regained control over Delhi and Agra . </P>

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