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== Summary ==
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{{War|name=First Maratha War |dates=1777 to 1782 |image= |combatant1=[[East India Company]] |combatant2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire Maratha Empire] |result=British victory |category=[[:Category:1st Maratha War|1st Maratha War]] }}
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== Summary == The British became involved in a dispute beween rival claimants to the throne of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire Maratha Empire]. The Presidencies of [[Bengal (Presidency)|Calcutta]] and [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay]] took opposing views on the matter. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Fadnavis Nana Phadnis], the leader of the Maratha chiefs, broke the terms of the treaty with Calcutta and a force under Colonel Cockburn was sent towards Pune[[Poona]]. The British were roundly defeated at the [[Battle of Wargaum]] (Wadgaon) and forced to sign a treaty relinquishing all territory acquired after 1775. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hastings Warren Hastings] rejected this treaty and sent another force under [http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/166/mode/2up Colonel Goddard]. After a series of victories the British prevailed and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Salbai Treaty of Salbai] was signed in 1782.
== Pune Poona Expeditionary Force ==
''Colonel Charles Egerton commanding''<br>
*591 European troops
*One Company of Gholundauz (Native Artillery) (100)
*Nawab of Oudh's Candahar Horse (500)
'''*Total 6,600 fighting men with 103 European officers'''
*Servants and followers 19,000
*Bazaar Department 12,000
== Biographies ==
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/310/mode/2up Nana Farnavis (1741?-1800)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/340/mode/1up William Popham (1740-1821)]<br>
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire Maratha Empire] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Maratha_War First Anglo-Maratha War 1777-82] Wikipedia
===Historical books online===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=K_cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''A History of the Mahrattas Volume 2, 1740-1785''] by James Grant Duff 1826 Google Books. Also [http://books.google.com/books?id=FKQ9AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Volume 1''] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=qqU9AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Volume 3'']
