Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
	Part of the Anglo-Mysore Wars
	; A map of the war thereafter
Date	1798 – 4 May 1799
Location	Indian subcontinent
Result	British victory
Belligerents
Mysore	Great Britain East India Company; Hyderabad Deccan; Maratha Confederacy Peshwas;
Commanders and leaders
Tipu Sultan †; Purnaiah; Mir Sadiq; Ghulam Muhammad Khan; Sipahsalar Sayyid Abdul Ghaffar Sahib; Mir Golam Hussain; Mohomed Hulleen Mir Miran; ;	George Harris; David Baird; James Stuart; James Dalrymple; Arthur Wellesley; Asaf Jah II; Mir Alam; Sham Raj I Rai Rayan; Bajirao II; ;
Strength
c. 37,000	East India Company:; 60,000; Hyderabad:; 4 infantry battalions; 10,000 cavalry

The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore against the British East India Company and the Hyderabad Deccan in 1798–99.^[5]

This was the last of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British captured the capital of Mysore. The ruler Tipu Sultan was killed in the battle. Britain took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the Wadiyar dynasty to the Mysore throne (with a British commissioner to advise him on all issues). Tipu Sultan's young heir, Fateh Ali, was sent into exile. The Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India covering parts of present Kerala–Karnataka and ceded Coimbatore, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada to the British.

^ Sunderlal, Pandit (2018). How India Lost Her Freedom. SAGE Publications. p. 364. ISBN 978-93-5280-642-3. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b Dalrymple (2003), p. 180.
^ ^a ^b Dalrymple (2003), p. 179.
^ Dalrymple (2003), p. 191.
^ Kohn, George Childs (2013). Dictionary of Wars (Revised ed.). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 322–323. ISBN 978-1-135-95494-9.