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BATTLE OF DELHI
(1803) |
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Date-wise Events |
September 11, 1803 |
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Description |
- It was here in Patparganj that the Battle of Delhi was
fought on September 11, 1803 between British troops and the
Scindia army.
- The Battle of Patparganj was the battle for Delhi.
- The city fell to the British three days after the defeat
of the Maratha army.
- Today, group housing societies of Patparganj stand on
what was the battlefield.
- It was this engagement, and the Battle of Assaye 12 days
later near Jalna in Maharashtra, which decided the outcome
of the Second Anglo-Maratha War — the
decline of Maratha power and British ascendancy in north
India.
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