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Gawilgarh Fort stands on a Satpura hill ridge above 1,000 metres in elevation, near present-day Chikhaldara in Amravati district, Maharashtra, overlooking the forests now part of the Melghat Tiger Reserve. Local tradition attributes its earliest fortification to the Gavli pastoral rulers of the 12th-13th centuries, after which control passed through Gond rulers before the Bahmani Sultan Ahmad Shah Wali refortified it with stone ramparts in 1425 CE.
The fort is laid out in two tiers, an outer fort and a more heavily defended inner citadel, connected by a narrow, winding passage designed to slow any attacking force even after the outer defences fell. Gawilgarh is best known in colonial-era history as the site of a battle on 15 December 1803, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, when a British force under Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) stormed the fort.
Surviving features include gates such as the Delhi Darwaza and Fateh Darwaza, a mosque built in the Pathan style, water tanks, and stone carvings depicting animals and inscriptions in Hindi, Urdu, and Arabic.
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