At Assaye, on the third of September, 1803, with 2,000 Europeans, and
2,500 native troops, Sir Arthur Wellesley utterly defeated the united
armies of Scindia and the Rajah of Berar, amounting to 20,000 cavalry,
and at least 11,000 infantry, strongly posted, furnished with a
formidable and well served train of artillery, (all taken,) and
officered in a great degree by Frenchmen. On the 30th Nov. he again came
up with the recruited and reinforced armies of these princes in the
plains of Argaum, and again totally routed them, taking thirty-eight
pieces of cannon. Without entering into further detail, it may be enough
to say, that the whole campaign was a master-piece of courage and
conduct, crowned with the most brilliant and decisive successes.