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Polity that includes all territories militarly occupied by British East India Company that are not part of a specific military territory.
Establishment
March 1768: The British consequently occupied Mangalore against minimal opposition in February.
August 1768: They retook Mangalore and the other ports held by the over-extended British forces.
Chronology
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Were a series of wars fought by the British East India Company in the Indian Subcontinent that resulted in the British conquest and colonial rule of the region.
1.1.Anglo-Mysore Wars
Were a series of four wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Sultanate of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East India Company, Maratha Empire, Kingdom of Travancore, and the Kingdom of Hyderabad on the other. The fourth war resulted in the dismantlement of Mysore to the benefit of the East India Company, which took control of much of the Indian subcontinent.
1.1.1.First Anglo-Mysore War
Was a conflict in India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company.
1.1.2.Second Anglo-Mysore War
Was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784.
January 1783: The British had captured Bednore (modern day Nagara) and other strongholds in the Malabar coast from Mysore in early 1783.
April 1783: The British captured Mangalore in March 1783.
January 1784: Tipu brought his main army over. He recaptured Bednore.
January 1784: Mangalore was besieged and captured by Mysore forces.
March 1784: The Second Anglo-Mysore War was ended on 11 March 1784 with the signing of the Treaty of Mangalore, at which both sides agreed to restore the others' lands to the status quo ante bellum.
1.1.3.Third Anglo-Mysore War
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.
1.1.3.1.British attack to Mysore
Was a British military campaign of 1790 in the Kingdom of Mysore during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
July 1790: On 21 July British forces led by Medows entered Coimbatore unopposed.
September 1790: Further strong points in the district fell to the British East India Company, with Palghat and Dindigul requiring significant action to capture.
1.1.3.2.Mysore Counterattack
Was a Mysore counterattack of 1790-1791 against British invasion.
September 1790: British Captain John Floyd withdraw from Sathyamangalam.
July 1791: Cornwallis' retreat to Bangalore exposed the Coimbatore district to Tipu's forces.
November 1791: Siege of Coimbatore.
1.1.3.3.Allied advances
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.
December 1790: The British East India Company captured Cannanore.
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.
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: 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.
June 1791: The British troops of Hurry Punt moved out from Kurnoo.
October 1791: The siege of Nundydroog was conducted by British East India Company forces under the command of General Charles Cornwallis in October 1791.
December 1791: Siege of Savendroog.
1.1.3.4.Treaty of Seringapatam
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.
1.1.4.Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Was the fourth and final Anglo-Mysore war. After the war, the Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India.
1.1.4.1.British Invasion (Fourth Anglo-Mysore War)
Was a British military operation in the Kingdom of Mysore during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.
November 1798: Three armies of the British East India Company marched into Mysore in 1799 and besieged the capital, Srirangapatnam, after some engagements with Tipu.
May 1799: In the Battle of Seringapatam, the British broke through the defending walls. Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, rushing to the breach, was shot and killed.
1.1.4.2.Partition of Mysore
After the loss of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, Mysore was occupied and partitioned. The remnant territories became a princely state of British India.
June 1799: Britain took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the Wodeyar Dynasty to the Mysore throne.
January 1784: Chandrasekhara Chikkaraya Chowta V was the last Chowta king who had some authority. He reigned from 1783 to 1822. Following the conquest of South Canara by the British the Chowtas lost all their power except that they received a small pension from the then government.
January 1791: The British seized Cannanore.
Disestablishment
May 1799: In the Battle of Seringapatam, the British broke through the defending walls. Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, rushing to the breach, was shot and killed.
June 1799: Britain took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the Wodeyar Dynasty to the Mysore throne.
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