By the mid 1700s, especially when compared to the Bombay Marine, the Maratha Navy declined in power rapidly. Unlike Kanhoji Angre, his successor "Admiral Tulaji Angre" resisted the authority of the ruling Peshwa (the "de facto" chief or the First Minister of Maratha Empire). The Peshwas (under Nanasaheb) (in concert with the British) engaged in a war against Tulaji, in which the British managed to get an opportunity to capture and burn a portion of the Maratha naval fleet. The Peshwas reconfigured and re-establish the navy under the leadership of the "Dhulap family". The British were easily able to overpower the declining Maratha Navy during the First Anglo-Maratha War. Through 1760s and 1780s, the Maratha Navy was commanded by "Rudraji Dhulap" and by "Anandrao Dhulap". In the late 1700s, whenever the Marathas were engaged in battles or conflicts with either the British or Haider Ali of Mysore, the Maratha Navy undertook operations against enemy ships. In 1818, after the end of the third and final Anglo-Maratha War, the Angre family became a vassal of the British however a small "Angre state" lingered on till 1840, after which it was finally annexed to British India.