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| Tango01 | 31 Oct 2020 9:21 p.m. PST |
"Having crossed the important river Godavery, Wellesley managed to manoeuvre his adversary Scindiah northwards, away from Hyderabad. On the 20th September 1803 he and his N°2, the experienced Colonel Stevenson of the British East India Company separated at Bednapur; Stevenson advancing through a valley some 14 English miles west of Wellesley's line of march. He and Wellesley had planned to join forces again at a village twelwe miles from Bokerdun. In the neighbourhod of this place it was intended to bring the enemy to battle on the 24th September. But on the 23rd September, with Stevenson not yet emerging from the hills through which his detachement was supposed to march, Wellesley received intelligence that Scindiah's cavalery had already escaped him, though there was still time to catch the Maratha infantry in their camp, which was not 12 miles away, but only 6!…"
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