Battle of Argaon
Battle of Argaon | |||||||
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Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War | |||||||
Plan of the Battle of Argaon | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
British East India Company | Maratha Confederacy | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Arthur Wellesley |
Raghoji II Bhonsle Daulat Rao Scindia | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
11,000 |
40,000
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
345[1] | 5,000+[2] |
The Battle of Argaon (also known as Battle of Argaum) took place on 29 November 1803, between the British under the command of Major-General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) and the forces of Bhonsle of Berar and Scindia of Gwalior.
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 Sirsoli, three miles south of Adgaon,[a] 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.[3]
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ Adgaon, known as Argaon during the British Raj
- ^ Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9788131300343.
- ^ Clodfelter, M. (2008). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015 (3rd ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786474707.. Page 235.
- ^ Gazetteer 2006.
References[]
- "Adgaon", Akola District Gazetteer (online ed.), www.maharashtra.gov.in, December 2006 [1977], archived from the original on 5 March 2016, retrieved 17 November 2014
External links[]
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