Anglo-Mysore Wars

The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of four wars fought during the last three decades of the 18th century between the Sultanate of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East India Company (represented chiefly by the neighbouring Madras Presidency), Maratha Empire, Kingdom of Travancore, and the Kingdom of Hyderabad on the other. Hyder Ali and his succeeding son Tipu fought the wars on four fronts: with the British attacking from the west, south and east and the Nizam's forces attacking from the north.^[1] The fourth war resulted in the overthrow of the house of Hyder Ali and Tipu (the latter was killed in the fourth war, in 1799), and the dismantlement of Mysore to the benefit of the East India Company, which took control of much of the Indian subcontinent.

The First and the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

The Third Anglo-Mysore War

The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

1793 map

1800 map

Mysorean invasion of Malabar

Battle of Nedumkotta

Regiment de Meuron

Garrison Cemetery, Seringapatam

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