Editing Assaye

{{Short description|Village in Maharashtra}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
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| subdivision_name2       = [[Jalna district|Jalna]]
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'''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, 1st Duke of Wellington|Arthur Wellesley]] (later Duke of Wellington).<ref>{{cite book|author=Boué, Gilles|chapter=Assaye|editor=Sandler, Stanley|title=Ground warfare: an international encyclopedia, Volume 1|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2002|isbn=978-1-57607-344-5|page=67|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_xxOM85bD8C&pg=PA67}}</ref> 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.

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