Draft:Battle of Chik Balpur

The Battle of chika balapur took place in January, 1771 . Gopal rao himself led the Maratha army as they advanced towards Haidar's camp The first exploit of the Marathas after the departure of the Peshwa seems to have been the capture of Chik Balapur.

Battle of chik balapur
Part of Maratha–Mysore Wars
Date January ,1771 Location Balapur,Karnataka Result Maratha Empire victory
Belligerents
Maratha Empire	Kingdom of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Madhavrao Trimbak rao Gopal rao	Hyder Ali Balaji Pant Chandroji Haji Muhammad
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

Battle

The '''Battle of chik balapur'' took place on December 1, 1771 . gopal rao himself led the Maratha army as they advanced towards Haidar's camp . The first exploit of the Marathas after the departure of the Peshwa seems to have been the capture of Chik Balapur." Trimbak Rao captured Gurumkonda in October after a long siege of about ten weeks. The place was then in charge of Saidu Mian, Mir Reza's nephew, who offered stubborn resistance to the Maratha.Gopal rao defeated three Mysore general Chandroji Jadav, Balaji Pant und Syed Muhamınad at Punganuru.

Aftermath

Towards the end of January maratha captured balapur and as the health of peshwa became ill they return to poona giving 10000 troops and 10 guns to Trimbak rao . Gopal rao died on 7 February

Reference

https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35153/page/194/mode/1up

2.Khare SP.D., Lxxvii, 211, shows that the Chief of Chik Balapur saw the Peshwa in May and agreed to pay an annual tribute of one Iskh besides military amistance. Peixoto (V1, 84) says that one of Haidar's commanders defeated the besiegers.

3 S.P.D., xxxvii, 119. Khare, IV, 1016, 1018, 1029 Wilks, Vol. 11. pp. 137-138