The Battle of Kirkee / Ganeshkhind which settled the fight for #Pune between Bajirao II and the East India Company. 
Probable route taken by Mountstuart Elphinstone to escape the Maratha attack on the British Residency at the Sangam and join the soldiers at Kirkee.
With most of the battlefield now a concrete (and in some parts actual) jungle , it's a bit difficult to imagine.
The Marathas under Bapu Gokhale proceeded via the Lakdipul and other routes , through Bhamburda , onto the present Ganeshkhindroad to Ganeshkhind
The Marathas under Bapu Gokhale proceeded via the Lakdipul and other routes , through Bhamburda , onto the present Ganeshkhindroad to Ganeshkhind
Over 20000 troops poured over the Bhamburda plain. Now entirely urbanised. What was it like ? Those of you who remember a small patch of scrubland on the RHS of SB road, where now stands the Marriot - well the whole plain was more or less like that.
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