Third Anglo-Mysore War
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Was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, the Kingdom of Travancore, the Maratha Empire, and the Nizam of Hyderabad. It was the third of four Anglo-Mysore Wars.
Chronology
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Was the retreat of the Kingdom of Mysore from Travancore, caused by the monsoon rains, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
January 1789: The Rajah of Coorg was restored by the British.
January 1790: Husain Ali Khan died in 1783, and his young son, Ghulam Muhammad Ali, succeeded him, with his paternal uncle as regent. Within the space of a year, Hyder's successor Tipu Sultan had driven them from Banganapalle; they took refuge in Hyderabad, returning to reclaim Banganapalle in 1789.
Was a British military campaign of 1790 in the Kingdom of Mysore during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
September 1790: Further strong points in the district fell to the British East India Company, with Palghat and Dindigul requiring significant action to capture.
July 1790: On 21 July British forces led by Medows entered Coimbatore unopposed.
Was a Mysore counterattack of 1790-1791 against British invasion.
November 1791: Siege of Coimbatore.
September 1790: British Captain John Floyd withdraw from Sathyamangalam.
July 1791: Cornwallis' retreat to Bangalore exposed the Coimbatore district to Tipu's forces.
During the summer of 1790, a Maratha army of some 30,000 under the command of Purseram Bhow, accompanied by a detachment of British troops from Bombay invaded the Kingdom of Mysore.
December 1790: Battle of Calicut.
October 1790: During the summer of 1790, a Maratha army of some 30,000 under the command of Purseram Bhow, accompanied by a detachment of British troops from Bombay, began marching toward Mysore. The first several Mysorean outposts surrendered in the face of the large army, and it made steady if slow progress until it reached Darwar in September.
May 1791: The Nizam of Hyderabad's army, led by Mahabat Jung, advanced to Koppal, which they besieged in October 1790. Poor-quality cannons impeded the conduct of the siege, which was not successfully concluded until April 1791.
May 1791: In 1791, during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, British General Cornwallis defeated Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam. The battle on 15 May forced Tipu to retreat behind the city's walls, leading to the territory falling under the control of the British East India Company.
December 1790: The British East India Company captured Cannanore.
March 1791: Lord Cornwallis led the British East India Company forces in the capture of Bangalore in 1791 during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
March 1791: Siege of Bangalore.
May 1791: The Maratha army then continued to advance, reaching the Tungabhadra River in early May.
October 1791: The siege of Nundydroog was conducted by British East India Company forces under the command of General Charles Cornwallis in October 1791.
November 1791: In 1791, Purseram Bhow, a commander in the Maratha Empire, captured Hooly Honore and Shimoga in an attempt to recapture the Bednore district taken by Tipu Sultan's father, Hyder Ali, in a previous war.
December 1791: Siege of Savendroog.
June 1791: The British troops of Hurry Punt moved out from Kurnoo.
February 1791: A second army, consisting of 25,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry under the command of Hurry Punt assisted by a detachment of British soldiers from the Madras army, left Poona in January 1791, eventually reaching Kurnool without significant opposition.
Was the treaty that ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Mysore lost about one-half of its territories.
March 1792: Treaty of Seringapatam: Under its terms Mysore ceded about one-half of its territories to the other signatories. The Peshwa acquired territory up to the Tungabhadra River, the Nizam was awarded land from the Krishna to the Penner River, and the forts of Cuddapah and Gandikota on the south bank of the Penner. The East India Company received a large portion of Mysore's Malabar Coast territories between the Kingdom of Travancore and the Kali River, and the Baramahal and Dindigul districts. Mysore granted the rajah of Coorg his independence, although Coorg effectively became a company dependency.
