Siege of Deeg

Siege of Deeg
Part of The Second Anglo-Maratha War
Date11-24 December, 1804
Location
Deeg fort
Result British victory
Territorial
changes
British troops capture Deeg Fort
Belligerents
British East India Company

Bharatpur State
Maratha Empire

  • Holkar of Indore
Commanders and leaders
General Lake

Unknown

Unknown
Casualties and losses
227 troops Unknown
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Second Anglo-Maratha War
  • Poona
  • Ahmednagar
  • Aligarh
  • 1st Delhi
  • Assaye
  • Laswari
  • Argaon
  • Gawilghur
  • Mukandwara
  • 2nd Delhi
  • Deeg
  • Farrukhabad
  • Deeg Fort
  • Bharatpur
c. 1865-June 1866 photograph of the Deeg fort by Samuel Bourne

The siege of Deeg (11–24 December 1804) was a siege of the main fort at Deeg, now in the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, India, then within the Bharatpur Kingdom. Forces of the British East India Company, led by General Lake, captured the fort from its Marathan defenders.

The siege started on 20 November, the bombardment on 13 December, and a breach made at Shahburz, a salient on the southwest side of the fort, on 23 December. A three-pronged attack took place that night and the Marathas retreated to Bharatpur on the 24th. The British suffered 227 casualties.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 93. ISBN 9788131300343.
  • MacFarlane, Charles. A history of British India: from the earliest English intercourse to the present time


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