. The foundation [and] growth of the British Empire . fled to British protection. On the lastday of the year he signed the Treaty of Bassein, by whichhe entered into a subsidiary alliance, receiving a forceof the Companys troops and agreeing to be guided byits policy. The immediate consequence was that Sindhia andBhonsla joined to make war upon the British, rightly T-i. «T X. ^^ iudnno; that the treaty with the Peshwa wasThe Mahratta i ® , ^ „ , , . ., i • <• ^i • War: Assaye but the first step to the curbing of their ownand Argaum, independence. General Wellesley (afterwards^^•^ the victor

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. The foundation [and] growth of the British Empire . fled to British protection. On the lastday of the year he signed the Treaty of Bassein, by whichhe entered into a subsidiary alliance, receiving a forceof the Companys troops and agreeing to be guided byits policy. The immediate consequence was that Sindhia andBhonsla joined to make war upon the British, rightly T-i. «T X. ^^ iudnno; that the treaty with the Peshwa wasThe Mahratta i ® , ^ „ , , . ., i • <• ^i • War: Assaye but the first step to the curbing of their ownand Argaum, independence. General Wellesley (afterwards^^•^ the victor of Waterloo) led a British force into the Deccan to oppose them. He was a youngerbrother of the Governor-General, and had already dis-tinguished himself in the conquest and settlement ofMysore. He met the Mahrattas at Assaye on September 1803 BATTLE OF ASSAYE 219 23, 1803. In spite of the fact that the odds were tento one, and that the foe had French officers and powerfulartillery, Wellesley attacked immediately and gained a INDIA 1805. \

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