After the Gorkhali troops captured Nuwakot, the hilly northern part of Kathmandu (Kantipur) in 1744, the Gorkhali armed forces came to be known as the Royal Nepali Army. Technicians and experts had to be brought in from abroad to manufacture war materials. Apart from the standard Malla era temples in Kathmandu, the army organized itself in Gorkha. Since unification was not possible without a strong army, the management of the armed forces had to be exceptional. The Nepal unification campaign was a turning point in the history of the Nepali army. History Nepali national soldiers by Gustave Le Bon, 1885 The Nepali Army is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal and the incumbent Chief of Army Staff is General Prabhu Ram Sharma. It has engaged in an extensive number of battles within South Asia, and continues to take part in global conflicts as part of United Nations peacekeeping coalitions. The Nepali Army has participated in various conflicts throughout its history, going as far back as the Nepali unification campaign launched by Prithvi Narayan Shah of the Gorkha Kingdom. It was officially renamed simply to the Nepali Army on, upon the abolition of the 240-year-old Nepalese monarchy, and of the 449-year-old rule of the Shah dynasty in Nepal, shortly after the Nepalese Civil War. The Gorkhali Army later became known also as the Royal Nepali Army following the Unification of Nepal, when the Gorkha Kingdom expanded its territory, to include the whole of the country, by conquering and annexing the other states in the region, resulting in the establishment of a single united Hindu monarchy in the whole Nepal. After the Gorkha Kingdom was founded in 1559, its army was established in 1560, and was accordingly known as the Gorkhali Army. The Nepali Army ( Nepali: नेपाली सेना, romanized: Nēpālī Sēnā), technically the Gorkhali Army ( गोरखाली सेना, Gōrakhālī Sēnā see Gorkhas), is the land service branch of the Nepali Armed Forces. Khukuri is the symbolic weapon of the Nepali Army Military unit Nepal Army's Guruju Paltan (a ceremonial infantry company) in traditional uniform Khukuri, Karda and Chakmak.
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