Battle of Farrukhabad

Battle of Farrukhabad
Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War
Date 14 November 1804 Location present-day Uttar Pradesh, India Result British victory
Belligerents
Maratha Empire	British East India Company
Commanders and leaders
Maharaja Yashwantrao Holkar	Gerard Lake

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 those of Maharaja Yashwantrao Holkar of the Maratha Empire.

Battle

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.

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]

Geography

Farrukhabad is one of the three tehsils in the Farrukhabad District of the State of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.

Notes

1. It is also known as the Battle of Fatehgarh after the town of Fatehgarh which is the administrative headquarters of the district and at that time contained a fort with military significance.

1. Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 93. ISBN 9788131300343.

References

• Alison, Sir Archibald. History of Europe, Volume 11