Battle of Deeg

Battle of Deeg
	Part of The Second Anglo-Maratha War
Date	13 November, 1804
Location	Deeg fort
Result	Maratha-Jats Victory
Belligerents
British East India Company	Maratha Empire Indore State; Kingdom of Bharatpur;
Commanders and leaders
General Fraser (WIA)	Yashwantrao Holkar; Ranjit Singh of Bharatpur
Strength
Unknown number of troops ; 160 guns	Unknown number of troops
Casualties and losses
87 guns captured by the Marathas and Jats ; 643 killed or wounded	About 2000 dead or wounded
	This battle resulted in Siege of Deeg

A map of the battle

Battle

The Battle of Deeg, fought on 13 November 1804, took place outside Deeg, now in the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, India. A force of the British East India Company led by Major General Fraser were defeated by a Maratha force under Yashwantrao Holkar and a force of Hindu Jats led by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Fraser was himself mortally wounded in the attack. The Marathas captured about 87 guns of the enemy's 160. British casualties were over 640 killed or wounded. Maratha casualties were estimated at over 2,000.

"The British loss was heavy - 643 killed and wounded", including General Fraser.[1]

The action was followed up by a Siege of Deeg Fort (11 – 24 December 1804).

In fiction

The battle and ensuing siege (together with statistics culled from Duff) are briefly described in G.A.Henty's 1902 book, At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War

References

Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. pp. 92–93. ISBN 9788131300343.

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[Naravane-1] Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. pp. 92–93. ISBN 9788131300343.