Battle of Shimoga

Capture of Shimoga
	Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
Date	29 December 1791 – 3 January 1792
Location	Shimoga, Kingdom of Mysore
Result	Maratha-British victory
Belligerents
Maratha Confederacy; East India Company	Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Parshuram Bhou ; John Little	Reza Sahib (POW)

The Capture of Shimoga, a town and fortress held by forces of the Kingdom of Mysore, occurred on 3 January 1792, after a preliminary battle with the attacking forces of the British East India Company and the Marathas, not far from the town on 29 December, had scattered much of its defending army. The defenders surrendered after the fort's walls were breached. The battle was part of a campaign during the Third Anglo-Mysore War by Maratha leader Purseram Bhow to recover Maratha territories taken by Hyder Ali in an earlier conflict between Mysore and the Marathas. By the end of the siege, Reza Sahib a leading Mysore commander, was among the captured.^[1]

^ Jaques, Tony (30 November 2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 936. ISBN 978-0-313-02799-4.

[1] Jaques, Tony (30 November 2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 936. ISBN 978-0-313-02799-4.

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