Appears personally before Vellore Fort
· Vellore Fort, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International · file Shivaji personally appeared before Vellore during the long Maratha siege. The fort itself resisted until 1678, but this dated presence records his direct supervision during the opening phase. The preceding sentence identifies the month as May 1677 and the fort as Vellore.