Antique Engraving print, “Colonel Maxwell’s last charge at Assaye”, 1820

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Antique Engraving print, “Colonel Maxwell’s last charge at Assaye”, 1820, credit Antiche Curiosità©

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Antique Engraving print, “Colonel Maxwell’s last charge at Assaye”, engraving by Jonathan H. Engleheart after Abraham Cooper 1820; associated with the Battle of Assaye, 2nd Maratha War (1803-1805), 23 Sep 1803, cm. 22 x 13. Rare.

Antique Engraving Print, “The Dogana, Venice”, 1832,  engraved by E. Goodall after C. Stanfield, cm. 23 x 17.

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“The Battle of Assaye was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War fought between the Maratha Empireand the British East India Company.^[4] It occurred on 23 September 1803 near Assaye in western India where an outnumbered Indian and British force under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley (who later became the Duke of Wellington) defeated a combined Maratha army of Daulat Scindia and the Raja of Berar. The battle was the Duke of Wellington’s first major victory and one he later described as his finest accomplishment on the battlefield.

From August 1803, Wellesley’s army and a separate force under the command of his subordinate Colonel James Stevenson had been pursuing the Maratha cavalry-based army which threatened to raid south into Hyderabad. After several weeks of pursuit and countermarching, Scindia reinforced the combined Maratha army with his modernized infantry and artillery as the British forces closed in on his position” (credit to wikipedia).