Gawilghur (also Gawilgarh) is the name of well-fortified stronghold of the Maratha Empire. It was popularly considered impregnable at the time but was successfully assaulted by Arthur Wellesley (later the First Duke of Wellington) in 1803. The remains of the fortress are located in the vicinity of Melghat Tiger Reserve in Amravati District of Maharashtra. Extent of the Maratha Confederacy ca. ... The Most Noble Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ... The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, is a hereditary title and the senior Dukedom in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Melghat Tiger Reserve is a natural reservation area located on the southern offshoot of the Satpura Hill Range in Central India, in the Amravati District of the Indian state of Maharashtra. ... Amravati (also Amrawati or Amraoti) is a city in the state of Maharashtra in India. ... Maharashtra (महाराषà¥à¤Ÿà¥à¤° in Devanagari) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ...
In popular culture, the campaign to take Gawilghur forms the background of the novel Sharpe’s Fortress by Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe’s Fortress is the third (chronologically) of the Richard Sharpe series, and last of the Sharpe India trilogy, by English author Bernard Cornwell. ... Bernard Cornwell is a prolific and popular British historical novelist. ...
That doesn't stop him from joining the assault on the daunting fortress of Gawilghur, a mountain fastness never conquered and the key to British power's northward thrust in India.
Defending it now is the forbidding and formidable Colonel Dodd, the mercenary commander we met in "Sharpe's Triumph", who schemes how to use Gawilghur's defense to depose his Indian masters, and rule himself.
Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, Decmeber 1803
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