Nader's Central Asian Campaign

During the mid-eighteenth century the Persian empire of Nader Shah embarked upon the conquest and annexation of the Khanate of central Asia. The initial engagements were fought in the late 1730s by Nader Shah's son and viceroy Reza Qoli Mirza who gained a few notable victories in this theatre while Nader was still invading India to the south. Nader ordered hostilities to cease despite his son's successes and later returned victoriously from Delhi to embark on a decisive campaign himself. The conflict resulted in the most overwhelming Persian triumph against the Khanate in modern history and with the admixture of his previous annexation in northern India, Nader's empire in the east surpassed all other Iranian empires before it all the way back to the Sassanians & even Achaemenids of antiquity.