Battle of Assaye

Major General Wellesley (mounted) commanding his troops at the Battle of Assaye (J.C. Stadler after W.Heath)

Date	23 September 1803
Location	near Assaye, India
Result	Decisive British victory

Belligerents

British East India Company

Maratha Empire:

Commanders and leaders

Arthur Wellesley

Anthony Pohlmann

Strength

9,500, (including two British infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment)
17 cannon

10,800 European trained Indian infantry
10,000–20,000 irregular infantry
30,000–40,000 irregular cavalry
100+ cannon

Casualties and losses

1,602 total
428 killed
1,156 wounded
18 missing

6,000 killed and wounded approx.
98 cannon lost

Coordinates: 20°14′10″N 75°53′13″E / 20.236°N 75.887°E / 20.236; 75.887

Maratha Empire:

The Battle of Assaye was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company. It occurred on 23 September 1803 near Assaye in western India where an outnumbered Indian and British force under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley (who later became the Duke of Wellington) defeated a combined Maratha army of Daulat Scindia and the Raja of Berar. The battle was the Duke of Wellington's first major victory and one he later described as his finest accomplishment on the battlefield.

From August 1803, Wellesley's army and a separate force under the command of his subordinate Colonel James Stevenson had been pursuing the Maratha cavalry-based army which threatened to raid south into Hyderabad. After several weeks of pursuit and countermarching, Scindia reinforced the combined Maratha army with his modernized infantry and artillery as the British forces closed in on his position.

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