Second Anglo-Maratha War
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Sides
East India Company forces, Sepoy regiments of the Company's Bombay, Madras and Bengal armies, British Army regiments, Mysore irregular cavalry, The Peshwa Baji Rao II, who ceded territory to pay for a Company force under the Treaty of Bassein (supporting), and Hyderabad, under Nizam Ali Khan (supporting)
Gwalior, under Daulat Rao Scindia, Nagpur, under Raghuji II Bhonsle, Indore, under Yashwantrao Holkar, from 1804, Bharatpur, under Raja Ranjit Singh, from 1804, and French officers commanding Scindia's regular battalions
Countries today: 
France, 
India, and 
United Kingdom
What happened
In October 1802 Yashwantrao Holkar of Indore defeated the armies of the Peshwa Baji Rao II and Daulat Rao Scindia near Poona. Baji Rao fled to the East India Company and in December signed the Treaty of Bassein, accepting a Company force paid for with his territory. Scindia of Gwalior and Raghuji II Bhonsle of Nagpur rejected the treaty, and in August 1803 Governor-General Richard Wellesley sent armies against them. In the Deccan, Arthur Wellesley took Ahmednagar and beat their combined army at Assaye in September and at Argaon in November; in the north, Gerard Lake beat Scindia's forces near Delhi in September and at Laswari in November. Both chiefs signed treaties in December 1803 giving up large territories, including the country around Delhi and Agra. War with Holkar followed in 1804; Lake failed to take Bharatpur, whose raja had joined Holkar, in four assaults in 1805, and the Treaty of Rajghat of December 1805 ended the fighting.
Outcome: Scindia and Bhonsle gave up large territories, including the Delhi–Agra region, by treaties of December 1803; the Treaty of Rajghat with Holkar ended the fighting in December 1805.
Key events
Leaders
- Richard Wellesley · Governor-General; ordered the war · East India Company forces, British Army regiments and their allies
- Arthur Wellesley · Commanded the Company's army in the Deccan · East India Company forces, British Army regiments and their allies
- Gerard Lake · Commander-in-Chief; led the army in the north · East India Company forces, British Army regiments and their allies
- Daulat Rao Scindia · Maratha chief of Gwalior · Maratha chiefs, with French officers in Scindia's service
- Raghuji II Bhonsle · Maratha chief of Nagpur · Maratha chiefs, with French officers in Scindia's service
- Yashwantrao Holkar · Maratha chief of Indore; fought the Company from 1804 · Maratha chiefs, with French officers in Scindia's service
- Pierre Cuillier-Perron · French commander of Scindia's army in the north; surrendered to Lake in September 1803 · Maratha chiefs, with French officers in Scindia's service
