1. Sadashivrao Bhau Bhatt was son of Chimaji Appa and Rakhmabai and the nephew of Baji Rao I He was a finance minister during the reign of Maratha king Rajaram II.
33 Facts About Sadashivrao Bhau
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Sadashivrao Bhau led the Maratha army at the Third Battle of Panipat.
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Sadashivrao Bhau served as the Sarsenapati of the Maratha army at the third battle of Panipat.
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Sadashivrao Bhau was the son of Peshwa Baji Rao's brother Chimaji Appa.
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Sadashivrao Bhau's father died when he was ten years old.
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Sadashivrao Bhau was cared by his grandmother Radhabai and his aunt Kashibai.
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Sadashivrao Bhau undertook his first campaign in Karnataka in 1746 because Babuji Naik of Baramati and Fateh Singh Bhonsle of Akkalkot failed in the task assigned to them.
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Sadashivrao Bhau joined Mahadoba Purandare and Sakharam Bapu as his political advisers.
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Sadashivrao Bhau conquered from the Nawab of Savanur and subsequently annexed the cities of Kittur, Parasgad, Gokak, Yadwad, Bagalkot, Badami, Navalgund, Umbal, Giri, Torgal, Haliyal, Harihar and Basavapatna.
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Mahadji Pant Purandare resigned and Sadashivrao Bhau became the Diwan of Peshwa.
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Sadashivrao Bhau successfully led the Battle of Udgir which weakened the Nizam of Hyderabad.
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Therefore, Sadashivrao Bhau was called back from Udgir to Partur where the Council of war was held.
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Sadashivrao Bhau chose Sadashivrao to lead the Maratha army to Delhi.
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Unlike Malharrao Holkar and Raghunathrao, who had a deep knowledge of the northern India, Sadashivrao Bhau was unfamiliar with the personages and politics of the region.
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Sadashivrao Bhau did not seek cooperation of the Jat and Rajput kings while planning for the war with Abdali but rather planned to punish them later to try to subjugate them.
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Sadashivrao Bhau did not heed the sound advice of Suraj Mal, who held power around Delhi and Agra, to leave the civilians at Agra and take only soldiers to the battlefield though there was a severe shortage of food and other supplies.
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Sadashivrao Bhau failed to forge an alliance with the Jats though they held sway on the food supplies around Delhi.
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Sadashivrao Bhau sent his men after him in the morning but Raja Suraj Mal and his men had reached the safety of Ballabhgarh fort by then and the men returned empty-handed.
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Sadashivrao Bhau spurned the offer from the Sikhs for alliance though his commanders tried to persuade him.
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However, Sadashivrao Bhau found only a little supplies in Delhi for his forces.
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The supplies from the region immediately around west and south of Delhi had dried up as Sadashivrao Bhau had antagonised the regional rulers.
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However, the supplies that Sadashivrao Bhau got at Kunjpura lasted only a few weeks as there was a large number of non-combatants in his camp.
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The resulting casualties and refugees fleeing to the Maratha camp caused overcrowding, shortages of supplies and shook the morale of Sadashivrao Bhau's army, forcing him to turn his attention to safely transporting the civilians to Pune.
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Sadashivrao Bhau departed the battlefield to visit the corpse and plunged into the Afghan army, Vishwas rao's death had a devastating effect on the morale of his troops.
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Sadashivrao Bhau counter-attacked but ultimately the army was defeated and any remaining civilians were massacred.
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Sadashivrao Bhau got heavily injuries after being surrounded by enemies.
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Sadashivrao Bhau enlisted the services of Ibrahim Khan Gardi in 1760, who brought with him 2,500 trained soldiers and fifteen cannons.
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Sadashivrao Bhau employed European mercenaries who used to be in the employ of Tulaji Angre before his defeat.
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Sadashivrao Bhau is known as sadashivrao bhatt from the family of chitpavan brahmin, son of Chimaji Appa.
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Sadashivrao Bhau accompanied Sadashivrao Bhau during the Battle of Panipat helped as accessary.
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Sadashivrao Bhau embarked on pilgrimage tour to Mathura and Vrindavan along with Nana Fadnavis and some maratha camp women.
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Sadashivrao Bhau was revealed as a fraud and is known as 'totayaa' which means an impostor.