Lake's Campaigns in India: The Second Anglo Maratha War, 1803-1807 - Hardcoverby Hugh Pearse (Author), H. W. Pearse (Author) Warfare in the exotic world of the early days of Britain's Indian Empire. In the early years of the nineteenth century as Napoleon's French Army dominated Europe the British empire continued with its expansion of power on the Indian Sub Continent. There, a young general Arthur Wellesley who would soon become the Duke of Wellington fought his formative battles including the one which he would always cite