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Battle of Farrukhabad
| Battle of Farrukhabad | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Maratha Empire |
 East India Company | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Yashwantrao Holkar | Gerard Lake | ||||||
  Farrukhabad Location within Uttar Pradesh  Farrukhabad Farrukhabad (India) | |||||||
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 Empire.[2]
Battle[edit]
The battle took place at Farrukhabad in what is now Uttar Pradesh, India.[lower-alpha 1] 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.[3]
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 attack.[4] The battle ended in a Maratha victory and the British forces were routed.[5]
Geography[edit]
Farrukhabad is one of the three tehsils in the Farrukhabad District of the State of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Eraly, Abraham. The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors. p. 259.
- ↑ Eraly, Abraham. The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors. p. 259.
- ↑ Eraly, Abraham. The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors. p. 259.
- ↑ Eraly, Abraham. The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors. p. 259.
- ↑ Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 93. ISBN 9788131300343.
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