Assaye

Assaye
Village
Battle of Assaye
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Coordinates: 20°14′42″N75°53′15″E / 20.245126°N 75.887396°E / 20.245126; 75.887396
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Jalna
Government
• Type	Panchayati raj (India)
• Body	Gram panchayat
Languages
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	MH 21

Assaye is a small village in the Jalna district of the state of Maharashtra in western India. The village was the location of the Battle of Assaye in 1803, fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company.

It became the first real victory for the young general Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). ^[1] Here he commanded a vastly outnumbered combined force of British and Sepoy regiments against a mixed modernised and tribal Maratha army. He always described this as his greatest military victory.

References

1. Boué, Gilles (2002). "Assaye". In Sandler, Stanley (ed.). Ground warfare: an international encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 67. ISBN   978-1-57607-344-5.