Battle of Laswarree during the Maratha
and Pindari War. Historical military prints of the 8th Light Dragoons at
the Battle of Laswarree by military artist Richard Simkin, available from
Cranston Fine Arts.
BATTLE
OF LASWARI (LASWARREE) General Gerard lake took control
of Aligarh, Delhi and Agra, during the opening weeks of the Maratha War.
He then marched to the Maratha Stronghold of Laswari. which lay 78 miles
south west of Delhi. On the 1st November 1803 a British Force and Native
troops 10,000 strong defeated a much larger Maratha force. The Maratha
Army lost several thousand men compared to only a few Hundred British and
allied troops.
