Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
Part of the Anglo-Mysore Wars

A map of the war thereafter
Date1798 – 4 May 1799
Location
Result British victory
Belligerents
Mysore

 Great Britain


Hyderabad Deccan
Maratha Confederacy

Commanders and leaders


Strength
c. 37,000[4]

East India Company:
60,000

Hyderabad:
4 infantry battalions[3]
10,000 cavalry[2]

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 KeralaKarnataka and ceded Coimbatore, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada to the British.

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