✦ History

Second Anglo-Maratha War

August 8, 1803 – December 24, 1805

Result British victory

War between the East India Company and the Maratha chiefs Scindia and Bhonsle, in which Arthur Wellesley won at Assaye and the Company took Delhi and much of central India.

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Battles 8

September 1–4, 1803
Siege of Aligarh British victory Aligarh Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
September 11, 1803
Battle of Delhi (1803) British victory Delhi Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
September 23, 1803
Battle of Assaye British victory Assaye Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
November 1, 1803
Battle of Laswari British victory Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
November 29, 1803
Battle of Argaon British victory Argaon Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
October 8–19, 1804
Siege of Delhi (1804) Siege abandoned Delhi Shah Alam II, Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
November 13, 1804
Battle of Deeg Maratha-Jat victory Deeg William Monson
January 2 – February 22, 1805
Siege of Bharatpur (1805) Jat - Maratha victory Bharatpur State Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake

Key commanders

East India Company 6

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Company general, won at Assaye Baji Rao II Peshwa, allied to the British Shah Alam II belligerent leader Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley military commander William Monson military commander Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake military commander

UKGBI 4

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington military commander Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake military commander Shah Alam II military commander William Monson military commander

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1

Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake military commander