Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Delhi (Second Mahratta War).

Fought September 11, 1803, between 4,500 British under General Lake, and 19,000 Mahrattas of Scindiah's army under Bourquin[Bourquin]. The enemy occupied a strong position with the Jumna in their rear, and Lake, feigning a retreat, drew them from their lines, and then turning upon them drove them with the bayonet into the river, inflicting enormous loss upon them. The British lost 400 only.