Wellington's First Command: The Political and Military Campaign Against Dhoondiah Vagh, February-September 1800

Huw J. Davies

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Wellington's First Command: The Political and Military Campaign Against Dhoondiah Vagh, February-September 1800

Huw J. Davies

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Wellington's first independent command has been seen as a short, but intense, 'baptism of fire' in which the young Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wellesley commanded a small force against the insurgent, or 'freebooter', Dhoondiah Vagh. New evidence presented here, however, demonstrates that the three-month military campaign was preceded by several months of political negotiation and intelligence gathering designed to isolate Dhoondiah and starve him of sanctuary, support and sustenance. As a result, the campaign was much more complex than previously thought, and demonstrates important lessons about British imperial expansion in the region at the beginning of the nineteenth century, on the nature of British authority in India, and on the opening stages of the military career of the future Duke of Wellington.

Original language	English
Article number	N/A
Pages (from-to)	1081 - 1113
Number of pages	33
Journal	MODERN ASIAN STUDIES
Volume	44
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X09990345
Publication status	Published - Sept 2010

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