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Chandrapur, Maharashtra
Valentine Blacker1818
Kalakriti Archives
Hyderabad, India
During the British campaign to reduce the Eastern Maratha country, Chanda (today known as Chandrapur) came to prominence as the largest bastion in the Nagpur region still in Maratha hands. With walls of over 6 miles in circumference, it lay near the confluence of the Erai and Zarpat rivers.
On May 21, 1818, Lt. Colonel William Adams authorized an especially daring plan to storm the fort, which was executed only with much difficulty, as the defenders were well prepared. However, the fortress was soon overcome and with it the British had nearly crushed the effective resistance in the eastern regions.
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- Title: Chandrapur, Maharashtra
- Creator: Valentine Blacker
- Date Created: 1818
- Date Published: 1821
- Location Created: India
- Physical Dimensions: 28 x 33 cm
- Type: Map
- Publisher: The Book titled on " Memoirs of the operations of the British Army in India during The Mahratta War of 1817, 1818, and 1819", Valentine Blacker, Londan, 1821.
- Medium: Manuscript, in pen and ink, with watercolour on paper
- Title (Original): Plan of the Attack of Chandah Stormed on the 21st May 1818. By the Nerbudda Division under the personal Command of Lieutenant Colonel Wm. Adam C.B.
- Creator's Lifetime: 1778/1826
- Creator's Bio: Valentine Blacker was a lieutenant colonel who served in the British East India Company during the first half of the 19th century. Blacker was born in 1778 in Armagh, Ireland, and came to India and joined in the Madras army in 1798, then started his career with the Mysore campaign. Later, he was employed in Wayanad district under Col. Stevenson in 1800 and given charge of cavalry troops; he was then under Col. Agnew, and in 1802 acted as the secretary to the Col. Pater, who was then commanding the southern divisions. In the subsequent years, due to his sheer merit, he commanded and participated in many campaigns. Finally, he was appointed as the Surveyor General of India. Valentine Blacker died in 1826 and was buried in the city of Calcutta.
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