دارت معركة سونشي بين سلطنة ميسوروإمبراطورية الماراثا عام 1777. [2][3] حاول حيدر علي استعادة أراضيه المفقودة في مليباروكورج من إمبراطورية الماراثا ونجح في القيام بذلك. حيدر علي قرر مهاجمة إمبراطورية الماراثاجيش الماراثا في سونشي. أرسل حيدر علي الجنرال الموثوق به محمد علي لمهاجمة حامية الماراثا المتمركزة في سونشي. كانت نتيجة المعركة انتصارًا حاسمًا لميسوروحيدر علي ضد قوات المراثا. قُتل قائد الماراثا كونهير راو في المعركة وتم القبض على بادورانج راو وأُخذ كسجين من قبل قوات ميسور. [1][4][5]
^ أبJacques, Tony (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. quote:"Haidar Ali of Mysore recovered from loss at Chinkurli (1771) to regain Coorg and Malabar, previously lost to the Marathas, then sent a force under Mohamed Ali across the Tungabhadra in southern India. Near Dharwawr at Saunshi, Patwardhan Chief Konher Rao was defeated and killed and Padurang Rao was captured. As a result, many local Chiefs soon submitted to Haidar.". Greenwood Press. ص. 916. ISBN:978-0-313-33536-5. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2021-01-30.
^Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (1977)، The History and Culture of the Indian People: The Marath supremacy، quote: "Haidar's triumph became unmistakable when he succeeded in defeating the Patwardhans in a sanguinary contest on 8 January 1777, at Saunshi, near Dharwar."، ص. 425، مؤرشف من الأصل في 2021-01-30
^Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency - Volume 22، quote: "Before the joint Maratha and Nizam armies could march, a small force under Konherrao Patvardhan and Pandurang, was (1776) sent to drive Haidar's troops out of Savanur. Muhammad Ali, the Maisur general and Raghoba's agent in command of a body of auxiliary Marathas, came up with the troops under the Patvardhan at Sansi about twenty-five miles south-east of Dharwar. Finding the Poona force drawn up in order of battle, Muhammad Ali began the action with his cavalry. He feigned a check, and, retiring in apparent disorder, was thoughtlessly followed by the Marathas, who, confident of victory, pursued in headlong haste till the fugitive Musalmans suddenly disappeared through openings in a powerful reserve. At the same time a body of men in ambush poured into the flanks of the Marathas a tremendous fire of graph and musketry. The slaughter was serious and the confusion hopeless. Muhammad Ali made a determined charge at the head of his cavalry, and, completing the rout, continued the pursuit for nine miles, and captured many of the Marathas, among them their leader Pandurang. After this defeat, in 1777..."، Government Central Press، 1884، ص. 413، مؤرشف من الأصل في 2021-01-30{{استشهاد}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: آخرون (link)
^C. A. Kincaid (1925)، A History of the Maratha People(PDF)، note: "Sansi" as quoted in this text on page 119 refers to Saunshi، Oxford University Press، ص. 119، مؤرشف من الأصل(PDF) في 2016-03-04، اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2021-01-30
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