The Battle of Farrukhabad (14 November 1804) was an engagement during the Second Anglo-Maratha War between forces of the British East India Company and the forces of Yashwantrao Holkar of the Maratha Confederacy.
| Battle of Farrukhabad | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War | |||||||
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 Maratha Confederacy |  East India Company | ||||||
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| Yashwantrao Holkar | Gerard Lake | ||||||
  Farrukhabad Location within Uttar Pradesh  Farrukhabad Farrukhabad (India) | |||||||
Battle
The battle took place at Farrukhabad in what is now Uttar Pradesh, India.[a] The Company's forces, led by General Gerard Lake, surprised Holkar's forces after making forced marches of more than 60 miles (97 km) in the preceding 24 hours.[1]
Lake "attacked the Maratha camp where the soldiers were still sleeping off the effects of the previous night's revelry." Holkar himself very narrowly escaped capture in the attack.[1] The battle ended in a Maratha victory and the British forces were routed.[2]