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The conquest of India -- the destruction of the MahrattasThis is continuing the story of Joseph Anderson whose early career during the Napoleonic Wars was told in the Leonaur book Fighting Napoleon's Empire. At the commencement of this book we fifi nd Anderson engaged as the Governor of a prison colony in Australia before he is posted to India. There with the 50th Regt. of Foot he is soon sent to Burma. Through Anderson's writing we are given a view of military life and campaigning in the early Victorian period in which many familiar personalities and regiments feature. In 1843 Anderson by now a Brigadier was engaged in the Gwalior War against the Mahrattas at the Battle of Punniar.