Assays

Assays
State :	India
State :	Maharashtra
District :	Jalna
Location :	20 ° 15 ′ N , 75 ° 53 ′ E Coordinates: 20 ° 15 ′ N , 75 ° 53 ′ E
Height :	261 m

Assaye is a community in India .

Geography and history

Assaye belongs to the Jalna district in Maharashtra state . It is located about 72 km northeast of the city of Aurangabad . Highway 178 runs in the north and runs from Kannad in the west via Sillod to Deulgaon Raja in the southeast. The city of Jalna is located south of the village . The village was the site of the 1803 Battle of Assaye , a skirmish between the Marathas and Britain under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington . The battle ended in a victory for the British. One volume from Bernard Cornwell's series of novels about the sniper Richard Sharpe deals with the battle of 1803.

literature

Assays . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 2 : Andros - Austria . London 1910, p. 776 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Assaye official homepage

Individual evidence

^ Bernard Cornwell: Sharpe's Victory. 1803, Richard Sharpe and the battle of Assaye (= Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch . Volume 15982 ). 1st edition. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-15982-6 (English: Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803. Translated by Joachim Honnef).

[1] Bernard Cornwell: Sharpe's Victory. 1803, Richard Sharpe and the battle of Assaye (= Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch . Volume 15982 ). 1st edition. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-15982-6 (English: Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803. Translated by Joachim Honnef).