Jitgadi Fort

Must visited place in Butawol to know historical fact..nSmall parking space with toilet facility..nFree Wifi

The 200 years old place where colonel ujir Singh won the battle with east india company the great Britain on command of major general silvon wood

Great place to visit and enjoy view

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History of Jitgadi FortnAlthough very little is known about the early history of the fort, legends and written records point to the fact that Jit Garhi as a frontier fortress protecting the Kathmandu Valley has been there since the times of the Kirat Dynasty, about 4000 to 4500 years ago. Strategically located on the western bank of the Tinau River in Butwal in South-Central Nepal, this fort along with Nuwakot Garhi and Kathe Garhi acted as strong defensive and offensive bases for the kingdoms of Kirat and Nepa. According to another legend, Mahisapalavamsa or the Buffalo Herder dynasty established by a Yadav named Bhul Singh funded the first structure of the Jit Garhi Fort.nnThe Thakuri dynasty kings were the first of the early medieval rulers to have reconstructed the defensive bases around the Kathmandu Valley and thereby built up the new fortress of Jit Garhi around in 879 AD. Raghavadeva started the ‘Nepal Era’ in the same year and reworked upon the defences of the main portion of the Kingdom. During the reign of the Thakuri Kings from Nuwakot, the Nuwakot Garhi and Jit Garhi Forts became the twin bastions of the Thakuri Army with the aim to both defend the kingdom from invasions from the Indo-Gangetic Plains and to ensure offensive against the lower Himalayan kingdoms of Northern India.nnFinally, Nepal was united under the Shah dynasty and Prithvinarayan Shah who was the ninth generation descendent of Dravya Shah, the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha, foresaw the need for unifying the small principalities of Nepal as an urgent condition for survival in the future. Nuwakot, which lies between Kathmandu and Gorkha, was captured by Prithvinarayan in 1744, and finally, after the victory in Kirtipur, almost united the entirety of Nepal. King Jaya Prakash Malla of Kathmandu sought help from the British. In 1767, the British East India Company sent a contingent of soldiers who were defeated by the Gorkha Army in the Battle of Sindhuli. After the defeat, the Gorkhali Army easily captured Kathmandu and it went on to become the royal capital of the kingdom of Nepal. After the death of Prithvinarayan Shah, the Shah dynasty began to expand their kingdom into much of the Indian subcontinent, and between 1788 and 1791, during the Sino Nepalese war, Nepal invaded Tibet and robbed the Shingpu Tashirlhunpo Monastery in Shigatse. When the Chinese Emperor sent a huge army to safeguard Tibet and invade Nepal, the alarmed Jit Garhi Fort again put up strong defence and held back the Chinese army out of the Kathmandu Valley. Finally, a truce was signed between China and Nepa, and the original border with Tibet was restored.nnAfter 1800, a period of internal turmoil followed, and the rivalry between Nepal and the British East India Company over the princely states bordering between them led to the Anglo-Nepalese war of 1814 – 1816. Also, the British made repeated efforts to persuade the Nepalese government to allow them a trade route to the fabled Tibet through Nepal. Despite a series of delegations from the British side, the Nepalese Durbar did not budge an inch. Also, the British needed a secured northern border with Nepal and a friendly government in Kathmandu so as to stop the Nepalese government from going into political collaboration with two strong empires on both sides of British India, the Sikh Empire and the Burmese Empire, with whom British conflict was inevitable. Due to economic and strategic reasons, the British invaded Nepal in 1814 on the pretext of a border dispute between Nepal and the Kingdom of Awadh in Northern India, which was under British protection. The initial British campaign was an attack on two fronts along a frontier of almost 200 kilometres stretching from the Sutlej River to the Koshi River. The British army was supported by smaller principalities of the lower Himalayas, and with the help of an ousted Palpali king, Major General Wood planned to march on Siuraj, Jit Garhi and Nuwakot with the view to bypass the Butwal defences, flushing out minor opposition on the axis and assault Palpa from a less guard