Bapu Gokhale

Bapu Gokhale was a general working for the Marathas in the Third Anglo-Maratha War.^[1] He was entrusted by Peshwa Baji Rao II with the preparations of the Third Anglo-Maratha War against the British in 1818.^[1] He died on February 19, 1818 during the battle of Ashti while defending the Peshwa from the British. He fought bravely and died with a sword in his hand just as he had wished he would have preferred to.^[2]

See also

• Balaji Pant Natu
• Maratha Empire
• Shivaji

Notes

References

• Naravane, M.S (2006), Battles of the honourable East India Company: making of the Raj, APH Publishing, pp. 78–105, ISBN 978-81-313-0034-3 
• Duff, James Grant (1921), Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, ed., A History of the Mahrattas, Volume 2, London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, OCLC 61585379