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'''Also known as the Pindari CampaignWar.'''
== Summary ==
{{Battlemap|war=3rd Maratha War|link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.000472cf83387282950bf&ll=21.2689,75.981445&spn=8.000617,9.316406&t=p&z=7}}
Pindari marauders made violent incursions into British controlled areas and in response the British pursued them into Maratha territory. Maratha leaders rose against the British but were decisively defeated at a series of battles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Rawdon-Hastings,_1st_Marquess_of_Hastings Lord Hastings] commanded the [[Grand Army]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Hislop,_1st_Baronet Sir Thomas Hislop] the [[Army of the Deccan]]. The Maratha Empire was broken up, much territory being ceded to the British and other areas becoming princely states under British control.
== Biographies ==Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br>http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/122/mode/1up John Doveton (1768-1847)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/193/mode/1up Lord Hastings (1754-1826)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/202/mode/1up Thomas Hislop (1764-1843)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/270/mode/2up John Malcolm (1769-1833)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/306/mode/2up Thomas Munro (1761-1827)]<br>[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/345/mode/1up Theophilus Pritzler (??4-1839)]<br>
== External Links ==
====Historical Books Online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=iYRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree campaign,: during 1817, 1818, and 1819''] by Carnaticus 1820. Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/memoiroftheopera032347mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoir of the Operations of the British Army in India during the Mahratta War of 1817, 1818 and 1819''] by Valentine Blacker 1821. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_G4BAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Journals of the Sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819''] by Edward Lake of the Madras Engineers 1825. Google Books
====Other====
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire Maratha Empire] - Wikipedia
*[http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_mahratta.php Maratha Wars] - Heritage History
