British East India Company captures Ahmednagar Fort
Belligerents
British East India Company
Maratha Confederacy
Commanders and leaders
Arthur Wellesley
Daulat Rao Scindia
Strength
24,000
Unknown
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The siege of Ahmednagar was the first battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War fought between the Maratha Confederacy and the British East India Company. When he determined that a long defensive war would ruin his army, Wellesley decided to act boldly to defeat the numerically larger force of the Marathas.
With the logistic assembly of his army complete (24,000 men in total) he gave the order to break camp and attack the nearest Maratha fort on 8 August 1803.[1] Wellesley's first move was to take the walled Pettah of Ahmednagar (town adjacent to the fort) by escalade,[2] on the same day (the 8 August).[3]
The Ahmednagar Fort surrendered on 12 August after an infantry attack had exploited an artillery-made breach in the wall. With the pettah and fort now in British control Wellesley was able to extend control southwards to the river Godavari.[4]
^Holmes 2002, pp. 69, 73.
^Fitchett 1911, pp. 102–104.
^Wellesley 1859, p. 151.
^Holmes 2002, p. 74.
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