Battle of Farrukhabad
Appearance
Battle of Farrukhabad | |||||||
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Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Yashwantrao Holkar | Gerard Lake | ||||||
Location within Uttar Pradesh |
The Battle of Farrukhabad (14 November 1804) was an engagement during the Second Anglo-Maratha War between forces of the British East India Company and the forces of Yashwantrao Holkar of the Maratha Confederacy.
Battle
[edit]The battle took place at Farrukhabad in what is now Uttar Pradesh, India.[a] The Company's forces, led by General Gerard Lake, surprised Holkar's forces after making forced marches of more than 60 miles (97 km) in the preceding 24 hours.
Lake "attacked the Maratha camp where the soldiers were still sleeping off the effects of the previous night's revelry". Holkar himself very narrowly escaped capture in the rout.[1]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Naravane, Wing Commander (Retired) M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. New Delhi: A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 93. ISBN 9788131300343.