Bhakti Thapa (born in Lamjung, Nepal) is a National hero of Nepal.
He was a patriot involved in the Anglo-Nepalese War. His most important contribution in the war was at the western front of Deothal. Though he was at least in his seventies, he led an early-morning counterattack on numerically superior British forces.
Bhakti Thapa’s great success in unification of Jumla made him a legendary figure. As a result, just two years after the unification of Jumla he was made the supreme commander of the whole Nepalese army stationed to the west of the capital in a vast region that stretched almost up to the Sutlez river (now India), and also administrator of this vast region. The way Bhakti Thapa laid down his life at the Deothal battle has become a legend in the Nepalese history.
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