His name was Peshwa Bajirao I.
He was born on August 18, 1700, in Sinnar, Nashik. His father was the Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. When his father died in 1720, the royal court was sceptical. Bajirao was only 20 years old.
Chhatrapati Shahu ignored the sceptics and appointed him anyway.
He fought 41 battles in 20 years. He never lost a single one.
He told his brother Chimaji Appa the night was not created for sleeping. It was created to raid the territory held by your enemy.
In 1728, he crushed the Nizam of Hyderabad at the Battle of Palkhed without a single major engagement. He simply cut every supply line until the Nizam had no choice but to surrender. In 1737, he marched his cavalry to the gates of Delhi and humiliated the Mughal Emperor in his own capital. In 1739, he forced the Nizam’s son to surrender at Aurangabad and extracted reparations of five million rupees.
He expanded Maratha authority from the Deccan to Rajputana to Bundelkhand to Gujarat to the outskirts of Delhi.
British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery later studied his Palkhed campaign and described his tactics as a masterclass in manoeuvre warfare.
He moved the Maratha capital to Pune in 1728 and began building Shaniwar Wada in 1730. He turned a village into a city.
On April 23, 1740, he developed a sudden fever at his camp in Raverkhedi on the banks of the Narmada. He was leading one lakh troops toward Delhi. He never made it.
On April 28, 1740, exactly 285 years ago today, he died at the age of 39. He was cremated the same day on the banks of the Narmada.
He spent 20 years on the battlefield. He never came home defeated.
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