Template:Infobox Military Conflict Template:Campaignbox Second Anglo-Maratha War
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.[1]
Battle
The battle took place at Farrukhabad in what is now Uttar Pradesh, India.Template:Efn The Company's forces, led by General Gerard Lake, surprised Holkar's forces after making forced marches of more than Template:Convert in the preceding 24 hours.[2]
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.[3] The battle ended in a Maratha victory and the British forces were routed.[4]
Geography
Farrukhabad is one of the three tehsils in the Farrukhabad District of the State of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.
Notes
- ↑ The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors{{#if:Eraly|, Eraly}
- ↑ The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors{{#if:Eraly|, Eraly}
- ↑ The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors{{#if:Eraly|, Eraly}
- ↑ Battles of the Honorourable East India Company{{#if:Naravane|, Naravane}. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation(2014). ISBN 9788131300343