Battle of Laswari
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Battle of Laswari | |||||||
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Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War | |||||||
Plan of the battle of Laswaree | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
British East India Company | Maratha Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
General Lake |
Ragoji Bhonsle II | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
10,000 Plus an unknown no. of troops from Alwar |
9,000 Infantry 5,000 Cavalry | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
"slightly over 800"[1] | around 7,000 killed[1] | ||||||
The Battle of Laswari took place on 1 November 1803 near Laswari village, Alwar.[2] It was part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
The British under Gerard Lake were anxious to finish the war by neutralizing the last substantial force that the Maratha confederacy possessed, consisting of twelve battalions of regular infantry trained by the adventurer Chevalier Dudrenec. Dudrenec deserted the Marathas and command fell onto Ambaji Ingle, a veteran Maratha officer.
Lake decided to dispense first with his artillery and later with his infantry in a series of forced marches to catch up with the Maratha force. Lake initially encountered the enemy force with just three brigades of cavalry, but the British troopers by repeated charges were able to contain the Maratha Army until the British infantry arrived.
The British units, commanded by Lake, were about 10,000 men strong, opposing
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"The casualties on both sides were very heavy. The Company lost many officers, including Maj. Gen. Weir, Col. Vandeleur and Maj. Griffith. Lake's son was also killed."[4]
On 17 December 1803, Raghuji Bhonsale (II) of Nagpur signed the Treaty of Deogaon with the British after the Battle of Laswari and gave up the province of Cuttack including Balasore.
In this battle, the people of the Meena tribe of Shahjahanpur fought a lot and drove the British away.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0313322808. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
1 Nov. 1803. At Laswari Lord Lake defeated a force of seventeen battalions led by the French Commander, Colonel Dudrenec. British casualties numbered slightly over 800 in what was evaluated later as a difficult close run victory. The Marathas lost about 7,000 killed and 71 pieces of artillery.
- ^ "Laswari - british and troops".
- ISBN 978-0-450-02842-7.
- ISBN 9788131300343.
- Cooper, Randolf G.S. (2003). The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 200–206. ISBN 978-0-521-82444-6.