Assaye
{{Short description|Village in Maharashtra}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
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| subdivision_name2 = Jalna
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Assaye is a small village in the Jalna district of the state of Maharashtra in western India. The village was the location of the Battle of Assaye in 1803, fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company.
It became the first real victory for the young general Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington).{{cite book|author=Boué, Gilles|chapter=Assaye|editor=Sandler, Stanley|title=Ground warfare: an international encyclopedia, Volume 1|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2002|isbn=978-1-57607-344-5|page=67|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_xxOM85bD8C&pg=PA67}} Here he commanded a vastly outnumbered combined force of British and Sepoy regiments against a mixed modernised and tribal Maratha army. He always described this as his greatest military victory.