Lake's Campaigns in India: The Second Anglo Maratha War, 1803-1807

by Hugh Wodehouse Pearse

Book Overview

Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire

In the early years of the nineteenth century as Napoleon's French Army dominated Europe the British empire continued with its expansion of power on the Indian Sub-Continent. There, a young general-Arthur Wellesley-who would soon become the Duke of Wellington fought his formative battles-including the one which he would always cite as his hardest fought victory at Assaye...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846772540
• ISBN13: 9781846772542
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"