Siege of Bangalore

Siege of Bangalore
Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
The Death of Colonel Moorhouse, Madras artillery, at the Storming of the Pettah Gate of Bangalore by Robert Home
Date 5 February – 21 March 1791 Location Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore Result British victory
Belligerents
British East India Company  Great Britain	Sultanate of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Charles Cornwallis	Tipu Sultan (outside the lines) Sipahdar Syad Hamid Sahib (lower fort) Buhadur Khan Sahib[1] (upper fort)

The siege of Bangalore was a siege of the town and fortifications of Bangalore during the Third Anglo-Mysore War by forces of the British East India Company, led by Charles, Earl Cornwallis against a Mysorean garrison, while Tipu Sultan, Mysore's ruler, harried the camps and positions of the besiegers. Arriving before the town on 5 February 1791, Cornwallis captured the town by assault on 7 February, and after six weeks of siege, stormed the fortress on 21 March.