Battle of Argaon

Battle of Argaon Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War Plan of the Battle of Argaon Date November 29 1803 Location Argaon, India Result British victory Territorial changes Maratha Confederacy Belligerents British East India Company Maratha Confederacy Commanders and leaders Arthur Wellesley Raghoji II Bhonsle Daulat Rao Scindia Casualties and losses 345[1]

The Battle of Argaon took place on 29 November 1803, between the British under the command of General Lord Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) and the forces of Bhonsle of Berar and Scindia of Gwalior.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Prelude

After Raghoji II Bhonsle and Daulat Rao Scindia was defeated at the Battle of Laswari, they moved off 28 November 1803.

Battle

The next day, three of Wellesley's battalions, which had previously fought well, broke and fled under a cannonade by the Marathas near Shirsoli, three miles south of Adgaon,^{[lower-alpha 2]} and the situation was for a time very serious for the British. Wellesley, however, succeeded in rallying them, and in the end defeated the Marathas, with the loss of all their guns and baggage.^[2]

See also

• Second Anglo-Maratha War

Notes

1. Also spelt Battle of Argaum
2. Adgaon, known as Argaon during the British Raj

1. Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9788131300343.
2. Gazetteer 2006.

References

• "Adgaon", Akola District Gazetteer (online ed.), www.maharashtra.gov.in, December 2006 [1977], retrieved November 2014 External link in |publisher= (help)

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