Hutatma samrak (Vijay Stambh) (Perne Phata)

India / Maharashtra / Koregaon / Perne Phata
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With the help of British solders the brave Mahar soldiers, a mere 500, had done Waterloo of Bajirao Second Peshwa at Bhima-Koregaon war on 1/1/1818 although the Peshwa army was well equipped with 25,000 men (40 times well equipped). This was first Dalit war of liberation.
This war memorial was built by Britishers in the memory of brave Mahar Soldiers.
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Coordinates:   18°38'34"N   74°3'15"E

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  • > The village of Koregaum is located on the banks of the Bheema river, a few miles to the east of Poona, on the road to Shirur (Seroor) and Ahmadnagar. A skirmish was fought there on November 1, 1817 between the Maratha Forces and the Company Forces consisting of a unit of the Madras Artillery and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Grenadier Regiment of Bombay. A memorial pillar was erected there in 1822 to commemorate the dead and the wounded on the Company side. It still stands and is in a very good condition, being in the charge of the Indian Army's Southern Command, headquartered at Pune. > > The following British names are inscribed on the Pillar, besides a large number of names of Indians. > > Capt. STAUNTON, Commander. > Lt William CHISHOLME of the Madras Artillery, killed. > Dr. John WILEY of the Madras Artillery, wounded. > Lt. Thomas PATTINSON of the Bombay Army, killed. > Lt. John CORNELLAN of the Bombay Army, wounded. > Lt. Joseph JONES of the Bombay Army, wounded. > Dr. WINGATE of the Bombay Army, killed. > Charles SWANSTON of cavalry unit at Poona, wounded. > > An account of the skirmish appears in the Times of May 05, 1818, taken from the Bombay Gazette of January 07, 1818. There are some differences in the two versions. The names WILEY and JONES are absent in the Gazette account. Perhaps there wounds were not such as to merit a mention in report of the Bombay Gazette. PATTINSON, shown as wounded in the Bombay Gazette, is described as killed in the text on the Pillar. Perhaps he succumbed to his injury after the report of the Bombay Gazette. SWANSTONE belongs to Madras according to the Bombay Gazette and to the cavalry unit (no other description) at Poona according to the Pillar.
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