The Maratha Checkmate

Major William Culpepper joins Arthur Wellesley’s campaign after the Peshwa’s flight from Poona draws the East India Company into the politics of the Maratha Confederacy. Attached to Wellesley’s staff, Culpepper moves through a campaign of marches, battles, monsoon conditions and siege work while continuing his personal pursuit of the hidden agent known as the Elephant Trainer. The novel brings the Indian arc of the series through the Second Anglo-Maratha War, from the restoration of the Peshwa to the fighting around Assaye and the assault on Gawilghur.