Third Anglo-Maratha War
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The Third Anglo-Maratha War was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an in
The Battle of Nagpore by Robert Woolf c.1817
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Ruins of the old palace at Raigad Fort
Portrait of Lord Moira (Joshua Reynolds, 1790)
Pindari
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The Pindaris were irregular military plunderers and foragers from 17th- through early 19th-century Indian subcontinent who accompanied initially the Mughal Army, and later the Maratha Army, and finall
Third Anglo-Maratha War
…army was decimated. The troops were led by Governor General Hastings, supported by a force under General Thomas Hislop. Operations began against the Pindaris, a band of local mercenaries and Marathas from central India. Peshwa Baji Rao II's forces, supported by those of Mudhoji II Bhonsle of Nagpur and…
Military leader Amir Khan Pindari by Vana Bhatti
Pindaris loyal to Siraj-ud-Daulah carry out the Black Hole of Calcutta incident, 20 June 1756.
Villagers committing suicide by burning themselves during a Pindari raid