Marathis lost all the major battles they fought. They talk about the battles of Panipat. Let's talk about them. Wikipedia gives me the following info about these battles:
a) The First Battle of Panipat (1526), between the Mughal Babur against the Delhi Sultan Ibrahim Lodi b) The Second Battle of Panipat (1556), between the Mughal Akbar the Great against Adil Shah Suri and Hemu c) The Third Battle of Panipat (1761), between the Afghans against the Marathas. So it was the third battle of Panipat which involved the Marathas.
The end result of the third battle of Panipat (read wikipedia about it) was complete destruction of Marathas. They were defeated so soundly that they ran helter-skelter in whatever direction possible. Some of them ran into the hills of what is Uttarakhand today. That is why we have so many Joshis, Babulkars, and Pants in Uttarakhand today. But these are good people unlike their Maharashtrian cousins who only know how to torture and rape unarmed people. So the summary is that bravery of Marathas is a fiction created by their writers. In reality, Marathas were born losers and lost every major battle that they fought.
