Pettah (other)
Pettah may refer to: * Pettah of Ahmednagar, a fortified town outside the Fort of Ahmednagar stormed by British soldiers in 1803 during Second Anglo-Maratha War * Pettah, Colombo, a neighborhood in Colombo, Sri Lanka located east of the City centre fort. * Pettah, Thiruvananthapuram, a residential suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala, India. See also *Petta (other) * Pettai (other) *Pita (other) Pita is a bread. Pita or PITA may also refer to: Places * Pita, Guinea * Pitas, Malaysia People * Pita (name), list of people with the name * Peter Rehberg Peter Rehberg (29 June 1968 – 22 July 2021), also known as Pita, was a British-Aus ... * Pitta (other) {{geodis ...
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Pettah Of Ahmednagar
In 1803 the Pettah of Ahmednagar, had forty bastions, or round towers: eight of them were large, with two guns in each; the remainder had only loopholes. There were twelve gates, without any detached works for defence. The walls were of mud, about high without a ditch. A gunshot to the east of the pettah was the Fort of Ahmednagar. A small river came from the northward, round the west side of the pettah, and passed to the southward of the fort. A nullah also passed from the northward, between the fort and a town called Bhingar, about a gunshot to the eastward, and joined the river. Two nills or covered aqueducts came from the hills, a mile or more to the north, passed through and supplied the pettah and the town, and then went into the fort, either under or through the ditch, into which the waste water fell. Capture during Second Anglo-Maratha War On 8 August 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, forces under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Welling ...
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