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Historical person
1775–1851
Baji Rao II was the last peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy. His unstable alliances with rival Maratha chiefs and the British East India Company led to the Treaty of Bassein and the Second and Third Anglo-Maratha Wars, ending his political power.
Anthony Morland’s The Maratha Checkmate places Baji Rao II within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and family, marriage and personal loyalty.
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The Life of William Culpepper follows a fictional British officer from the Revolutionary Wars in Europe into the East India Company’s campaigns in India. The sequence begins with the Flanders campaign and the Battle of Boxtel, then moves through the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the unstable aftermath of Tipu…
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