Siege of Seringapatam (1792)

Siege of Seringapatam
Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War

General Lord Cornwallis receiving Tipoo Sultan's sons as hostages, by Robert Home, c. 1793
Date5 February – 18 March 1792
Location
Result

Allied victory

Belligerents
East India Company
Hyderabad
Maratha Empire
Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Charles Cornwallis
Robert Abercromby
Parshuram Bhou
Mahabat Jung
Tipu Sultan

The 1792 siege of Seringapatam was a battle and siege of the Mysorean capital city of Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) at the end of the Third Anglo-Mysore War. An army led by Charles, Earl Cornwallis, consisting of British East India Company and British Army forces, along with allied forces from the Maratha Empire and the Nizam of Hyderabad, arrived at Seringapatam on 5 February 1792, and after less than three weeks of battle and siege, forced Tipu Sultan to capitulate. With his agreement to the Treaty of Seringapatam on 18 March 1792, the war came to an end.