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“Capture of Gawilghur.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/capture-of-gawilghur-1803/. Accessed .
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The fort was stormed and its commander Beni Singh died in the defence; Raghuji Bhonsle made peace two days later.
01Into the Melghat
After Assaye in September and Argaon on 29 November 1803, the Bhonsle army fell back on Gawilghur, a double fortress on the ridge of the Satpuras. Wellesley sent Stevenson’s division round by the hill tracks to the north face, where the ground was less steep, while his own troops threatened the south. The guns had to be dragged up by hand over roads cut through the jungle.
02The storm
Breaches were opened in the outer fort, and on 15 December the stormers went in from the north and south at once. The inner wall still stood, and men of the 94th Regiment climbed it with ladders and opened a gate from inside. The Rajput killedar Beni Singh and many of his men died fighting. On 17 December Raghuji II signed the Treaty of Deogaon, giving up Cuttack and his lands west of the Wardha.
The Treaty of Deogaon took Odisha’s coast, with Puri and the Jagannath temple, from the Bhonsles into Company hands.