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In a spirit of chivalry, the Marathas permitted the British to retreat to Bombay. As per British historian James Douglas, this proved to be a strategic mistake with ramifications not just for the Maratha Empire, but the history of India, when he said that had Nana Fadnavis, the powerful minister in Pune, been like | In a spirit of chivalry, the Marathas permitted the British to retreat to Bombay. As per British historian James Douglas, this proved to be a strategic mistake with ramifications not just for the Maratha Empire, but the history of India, when he said that had Nana Fadnavis, the powerful minister in Pune, been like Napoleon or Edward I, no British soldier would have survived to tell the tale and the whole course of history of India would have been different.<ref>{{cite news |last= Paranjpe|first= Shailendra|date=16 January 2018|title=Vadgaon Maval – A tale of unsung heroes and astounding warcraft|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-vadgaon-maval-a-tale-of-unsung-heroes-and-astounding-warcraft-2575765|newspaper=DNA India}}</ref> | ||
The treaty of Wadgaon did not last very long and the British Governor-General in Bengal, [[Warren Hastings]], rejected the treaty on the grounds that the Bombay officials had no legal power to sign it, and ordered that British interests be secured in the area.<ref>{{cite book|author=Spencer C. Tucker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUhvfR1S_UEC&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=treaty+of+surat#v=onepage&q=treaty%20of%20surat&f=false|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year= 2009|isbn=9781851096725|location=940|pages=2777}}</ref> | The treaty of Wadgaon did not last very long and the British Governor-General in Bengal, [[Warren Hastings]], rejected the treaty on the grounds that the Bombay officials had no legal power to sign it, and ordered that British interests be secured in the area.<ref>{{cite book|author=Spencer C. Tucker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUhvfR1S_UEC&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=treaty+of+surat#v=onepage&q=treaty%20of%20surat&f=false|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year= 2009|isbn=9781851096725|location=940|pages=2777}}</ref> | ||