Assaye
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Assaye is a small village in the
British East India Company
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It became the first real victory for the young general Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington).[1] Here he commanded a vastly outnumbered combined force of British and Sepoy regiments against a mixed modernised and tribal Maratha army. He always described this as his greatest military victory.
References
- ISBN 978-1-57607-344-5.
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