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2004 jeep grand cherokee with dead battery, got a new 1 and now it wont crank and the gauges and radio doesnt work.....fuses maybe???

I have an 04 jeep grand cherokee, my kids had been in the jeep and left an interior light on......battery went dad, jumped it off got it going again, got up the next morning, and my husband had left an interior light on in the passenger side..(it was late) so it was dead again. (sigh)... didnt have cables to try to jump it again but another vehicle we have had a nw battery on it, took it out of the put it in my jp, little did i know and i was mad and in a hurry i had turned the battery around backwards so positive touched negative and negative touched positive and caused a huge display of sparks, and then a little smoke, so now.....took the battery back out and over to other vehicle and battery is still good....so ran it back to th jeep put it in the corrct way, cranked and, it tried to roll over but wont crank all the way, and now my radio and my gauges wont work...what th heck did i do and how do i fix it?

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You probably blew a fuse.
Look under the hood for the fuse box and check the BIG fuses.

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