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4th Mysore War
1798-99
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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East India Company	Kingdom of Mysore
Result: British victory Mysore became a princely state of British India Coimbatore, North Kanara, and South Kanara ceded to the British
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The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-99) was between Tipu Sultan ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and the Madras Presidency of the British East India Company.

Summary

When Napoleon landed in Egypt, the British decided to eliminate Mysore, the French ally in India. They laid siege to and finally stormed Seringapatam. Tipu Sultan was killed, more territory was ceded to the British and Mysore became a princely state of British India.

Bombay Army

6,420 fighting men under Lt-Gen James Stuart

Detachment of Bombay Artillery

Lt-Col George A Lawman (510)

Detachment of Engineers

Lt-Col J C Sartorius and Capt B Moncrieffe (423)

Right Brigade

Lt-Col John Montresor commanding

1st Btn 2nd Bombay Native Infantry (653)
1st Btn 4th Bombay Native Infantry (672)
3rd Bombay Native Infantry (663)

Centre Brigade
Lt-Col James Dunlop commanding

Left Brigade
Lt-Col John Wiseman commanding

2nd Btn 3rd Regiment Native Infantry (717)
1st Btn 5th Regiment Native Infantry (663)
2nd Btn 2nd Regiment Native Infantry (675)
Pioneer Corps

Grand Army

20,071 fighting men under Lt-Gen George Harris
CAVALRY
Maj-Gen Sir John Floyd commanding
1st Brigade under Col James Stevenson

2nd Brigade under Col John Pater

INFANTRY
Right Wing
Maj-Gen Thomas Bridges commanding
1st Brigade under Maj-Gen David Baird

3rd Brigade under Col Francis Gowdie

5th Brigade under Col George Roberts

Left Wing
Maj-Gen William Popham commanding
2nd Brigade under Col John Sherbrooke

73rd Regiment of Foot
33rd Regiment of Foot (Col Arthur Wellesley commanding)
de Meuron Regiment

4th Brigade under Lt-Col John Gardiner

1st Bengal Volunteer Infantry
2nd Bengal Volunteer Infantry
3rd Bengal Volunteer Infantry

6th Brigade under Lt-Col Thomas Scott

ENGINEERS & PIONEERS
1,000 men under Col William Gent

European officers and NCOs with Madras Native Pioneers

ARTILLERY

Two companies Bengal Artillery
1st Battalion Madras Artillery
2nd Battalion Madras Artillery

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
David Baird (1757-18229)
John Floyd (1748-18218)
George Harris (1746-1829)
James Stuart (1741-1815)
Tippoo Sultan (1753-1799)
Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)

External links

Historical books online

A view of the origin and conduct of the war with Tippoo Sultaun by Lt.Col. Alexander Beatson. 1800. Archive.org. Mirror of a file at Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online. 2nd file Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies, May 4, 1799. With notes, descriptive and explanatory. Collected from authentic materials 1800 Google Books
Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army by Major David Price 1839 Google Books (service from 1780). page 356 1798
Mysore Gazetteer Volume 2 Part 4: Historical, Modern Period c 1930. Archiv.org. The Fourth Mysore War commences page 2631, (digital page 235)
"Journal of the Campaign of 1799 in India". An Account from January to May 1799 by an Officer of the 25th Light Dragoons. The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 1838 Part 3, page 15. Google Books
Battle of Malavelly and the capture of Seringapatam page 76 Memoirs and correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, Volume I [Stapleton Cotton] by the Right Hon Mary, Vicountess Combermere and Capt W W Knollys 1866 Archive.org. The account is stated to be taken from a journal kept by Patrick Ross, a Captain in Colonel Cotton's regiment, the 25th Light Dragoons.
Catalogue reference at the British Library Fourth Mysore War IOR/H/255 refers to many entries in "State Papers" in Asiatic Annual Register, 1799. There were two different 1799 editions:

Asiatic Annual Register 1799 Contents; and 1799, 2nd edition, Contents Google Books.

An Account of the Campaign in Mysore (1799) by Sir Alexander Allan ; edited by Nares Chandra Sinha; elsewhere stated to have been published 1912. Archive.org, mirror from Ministry of Culture/National Library of India.
Fiction
- Sharpe's Tiger : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 by Bernard Cornwell 1999. 2nd file 1999. 3rd file 2005. All Archive.org Lending Library.
Recommended on the Fiction and poetry reading list

Seringapatam 1 and Seringapatam 2. bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com

Other

Mysore Wars Heritage History
Anglo-Mysore Wars Wikipedia
4th Mysore War 1798-99 Wikipedia

Macquarie University 'Seringapatam 1799' project

Historical maps online

Joppen Historical Maps - India 1795 www.columbia.edu

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 == Summary ==
-When Napoleon landed in Egypt, the British decided to eliminate Mysore, the French ally in India. They laid siege to and finally stormed [[Seringapatam]]. Tipoo Sultan was killed, more territory was ceded to the British and Mysore became a [[Princely states|princely state]] of British India.
+When Napoleon landed in Egypt, the British decided to eliminate Mysore, the French ally in India. They laid siege to and finally stormed [[Seringapatam]]. [[Tipu Sultan]] was killed, more territory was ceded to the British and Mysore became a [[Princely states|princely state]] of British India.
 == Bombay Army ==
-''6,420 fighting men under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stuart_(British_Army_officer)  Lt- Gen James Stuart]''
+''6,420 fighting men under [[James Stuart (1741-1815)|Lt-Gen James Stuart]]''
 *Detachment of [[Bombay European Foot Artillery|Bombay Artillery]]<br>
-:Lt-Col George A Lawman (510)
+:[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#LAWMAN Lt-Col George A Lawman] (510)
 *Detachment of Engineers<br>
-:Lt-Col J C Sartorius and Capt B Moncrieffe (423)
+:[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#SARTORIUS Lt-Col J C Sartorius] and [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#MONCRIEFFE Capt B Moncrieffe] (423)<br />
 '''Right Brigade'''<br>
 :[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#MONTRESOR Lt-Col John Montresor] commanding
@@ Line 18: / Line 19: @@
 *[[5th Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|3rd Bombay Native Infantry]] (663)<br>
 '''Centre Brigade'''<br>
-Lt-Col James Dunlop commanding
+[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#DUNLOP Lt-Col James Dunlop] commanding
 *[[75th Regiment of Foot]] (233)
 *[[1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers|HEIC European Regiment of Foot]] (528)
 *[[77th Regiment of Foot]] (693)<br>
 '''Left Brigade'''<br>
-Lt-Col John Wiseman commanding
+[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#WISEMAN Lt-Col John Wiseman] commanding
 *[[6th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry|2nd Btn 3rd Regiment Native Infantry]] (717)
 *[[2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry (Grenadiers)|1st Btn 5th Regiment Native Infantry]] (663)
@@ Line 30: / Line 31: @@
 == Grand Army ==
-<div style="column-count:2;-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2">
+,071 fighting men under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harris,_1st_Baron_Harris Lt-Gen George Harris]<br>
-*[[12th Regiment of Foot]]
+'''CAVALRY'''<br>
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Floyd,_1st_Baronet Maj-Gen Sir John Floyd] commanding<br />
+'''1st Brigade''' under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stevenson_(East_India_Company_officer) Col James Stevenson]
 *[[19th Lancers|19th Light Dragoons]]
+*[[1st Madras Lancers|1st Madras Native Cavalry]]
+*[[4th Madras Native Cavalry]]<br />
+'''2nd Brigade''' under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#PATER Col John Pater]
 *[[22nd Light Dragoons|25th Light Dragoons]]
-*[[33rd Regiment of Foot]]
-*[[73rd Regiment of Foot]]
-*[[74th Regiment of Foot]]
-*[[94th Regiment of Foot]]
-*[[De Meuron Regiment|de Meuron Regiment]]
-*[[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers|Bengal (European) Regiment]]
-*[[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|Madras (European) Regiment]]
-*[[61st Madras Pioneers|1st Madras Native Infantry]]
-*[[62nd Punjab Regiment|2nd Madras Native Infantry]]
-*[[1st Madras Lancers|1st Madras Native Cavalry]]
 *[[2nd Madras Native Cavalry]]
 *[[3rd Madras Native Cavalry]]
-*[[4th Madras Native Cavalry]]
-*[[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras Pioneers]]
+'''INFANTRY'''<br>
-*[[Madras Artillery]]
+'''Right Wing'''<br />
-*[[1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|1st Bengal Native Infantry]]
+[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#BRIDGES Maj-Gen Thomas Bridges] commanding<br />
-*[[2nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|2nd Bengal Native Infantry]]
+'''1st Brigade''' under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_David_Baird,_1st_Baronet Maj-Gen David Baird]
-*[[Bengal Artillery]]
+*[[12th Regiment of Foot]]
-</div>
+*[[74th Regiment of Foot]]
+*[[94th Regiment of Foot]]<br />
+'''3rd Brigade''' under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#GOWDIE Col Francis Gowdie]<br />
+*[[61st Madras Pioneers|1st Btn 1st Madras Native Infantry]]
+*[[66th Punjab Regiment|1st Btn 6th Madras Native Infantry]]
+*[[83rd (Wallajahbad) Light Infantry|1st Btn 12th Madras Native Infantry]]<br />
+'''5th Brigade''' under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#ROBERTS Col George Roberts]<br />
+*[[8th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|1st Btn 8th Madras Native Infantry]]
+*[[73rd Carnatic Infantry|2nd Btn 3rd Madras Native Infantry]]
+*[[84th Punjab Regiment|2nd Btn 12th Madras Native Infantry]]<br />
+'''Left Wing'''<br />
+[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/340/mode/1up/search/Popham Maj-Gen William Popham] commanding<br />
+'''2nd Brigade''' under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#SHERBROOKE Col John Sherbrooke]
+*[[73rd Regiment of Foot]]
+*[[33rd Regiment of Foot]] (Col [[Arthur Wellesley]] commanding)
+*[[De Meuron Regiment|de Meuron Regiment]]<br />
+'''4th Brigade''' under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#GARDINER Lt-Col John Gardiner]
+*1st Bengal Volunteer Infantry
+*2nd Bengal Volunteer Infantry
+*3rd Bengal Volunteer Infantry<br />
+'''6th Brigade''' under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#s Lt-Col Thomas Scott]
+*[[76th Punjab Regiment|2nd Btn 5th Madras Native Infantry]]
+*[[71st Coorg Rifles|2nd Btn 5th Madras Native Infantry]]<br />
+'''ENGINEERS & PIONEERS'''<br>
+,000 men under [http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#GENT Col William Gent]<br>
+* European officers and NCOs with Madras Native Pioneers
+'''ARTILLERY'''<br>
+*Two companies Bengal Artillery
+*1st Battalion Madras Artillery
+*2nd Battalion Madras Artillery
 ==Related articles ==
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 [http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/445/mode/1up Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)]<br>
-== External Links ==
+== External links ==
-====Historical books on-line====
+====Historical books online====
+*[https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.11817/page/n1  ''A view of the origin and conduct of the war with Tippoo Sultaun''] by  Lt.Col. Alexander Beatson. 1800. Archive.org. Mirror of a file at Kerala State  Central Library Rare Books Online. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.870/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
+*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_otNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Narrative sketches of the conquest of the Mysore, effected by the British troops and their allies, May 4, 1799. With notes, descriptive and explanatory. Collected from authentic materials''] 1800 Google Books
 *[http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army''] by Major David Price 1839 Google Books (service from 1780).  [http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA356 page 356] 1798
-*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mysoregazetteerv035381mbp#page/n235/mode/2up ''Mysore Gazetteer Volume 2 Part 4:Historical, Modern Period''] c 1930. The Fourth Mysore War commences page 2631, ( computer page 235)
+*[http://www.archive.org/stream/mysoregazetteerv035381mbp#page/n235/mode/2up ''Mysore Gazetteer Volume 2 Part 4: Historical, Modern Period''] c 1930. Archiv.org. The Fourth Mysore War commences page 2631, (digital page 235)
+*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=e9gRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15  "Journal of the Campaign of 1799 in India"]. An Account from January to May 1799 by an Officer of the [[22nd Light Dragoons|25th Light Dragoons]].  ''The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 1838  Part 3'', page 15. Google Books
+*[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsandcorre00knolgoog#page/n98/mode/2up Battle of Malavelly and the  capture of Seringapatam] page 76 ''Memoirs and correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, Volume I'' [Stapleton Cotton] by the Right Hon Mary, Vicountess Combermere and Capt W W Knollys 1866 Archive.org. The account is stated to be taken from a journal kept by Patrick Ross, a Captain in Colonel Cotton's regiment, the 25th Light Dragoons.
+*Catalogue reference at the British Library [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/67d1e5b4-a56c-4aa6-a6e9-3f735f2e0bee Fourth Mysore War IOR/H/255] refers to many entries in "State Papers" in ''Asiatic Annual Register, 1799''. There were two different 1799 editions:
+:[http://books.google.com/books?id=xxcYAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Asiatic Annual Register'' 1799] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xxcYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR21 Contents]; and [http://books.google.com/books?id=YiQoAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1799, 2nd edition], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YiQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR25 Contents] Google Books.
+*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.00024/mode/2up ''An Account of the Campaign in Mysore (1799)''] by Sir Alexander Allan ; edited by Nares Chandra Sinha; elsewhere stated to have been published 1912. Archive.org, mirror from  Ministry of Culture/National Library of India.
+*Fiction
+**[https://archive.org/details/sharpestiger00bern ''Sharpe's Tiger : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799''] by Bernard Cornwell 1999. [https://archive.org/details/sharpestigerrich00bern 2nd file] 1999. [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780061012693/page/n3 3rd file] 2005. All Archive.org Lending Library.
+*:Recommended on the [[Fiction and  poetry reading list]]
+*:[http://bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com/2010/07/indian-adventure.html Seringapatam 1] and [http://bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com/2010/06/indis-sharpes-tiger-siege-seringapatam.html Seringapatam 2]. bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com
 ====Other====
-[http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_mysore.php Mysore Wars] Heritage History<br>
+*[http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_mysore.php Mysore Wars] Heritage History<br>
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Mysore_Wars Anglo-Mysore Wars] Wikipedia<br>
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Mysore_Wars Anglo-Mysore Wars] Wikipedia<br>
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Anglo-Mysore_War 4th Mysore War 1798-99] Wikipedia<br>
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Anglo-Mysore_War 4th Mysore War 1798-99] Wikipedia<br>
-[http://bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com/2010/07/indian-adventure.html Seringapatam 1] and [http://bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com/2010/06/indis-sharpes-tiger-siege-seringapatam.html Seringapatam 2]. bernardcornwellbookgroup.blogspot.com (see also the [[Fiction and  poetry reading list]]  for Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe book series)
+=====Macquarie University 'Seringapatam 1799' project=====
+*[https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/seringapatam/ Seringapatam 1799: letters and journals of Major Lachlan Macquarie in India] Main page
+*[https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/seringapatam/chronology.html Chronology]
+===== Historical maps online =====
+*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/joppenlate1700s/joppenlate1700s.html#1795 Joppen Historical Maps - India 1795] www.columbia.edu
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-=====Macquarie University 'Seringapatam 1799' project=====
-*[http://www.library.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam Seringapatam 1799: letters and journals of Major Lachlan Macquarie in India] Main page
-*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/chronology.html Chronology]
-===== Historical maps on-line =====
-[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/joppenlate1700s/joppenlate1700s.html#1795 Joppen Historical Maps - India 1795] www.columbia.edu
 [[Category:Wars and Campaigns|Mysore War, 4th]]
 [[Category:4th Mysore War| 4th Mysore War]]
 [[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Mysore War, 4th]]

Battle of Sedaseer	6 March 1799
Battle of Mallavelly	27 March 1799
Battle of Sultanpettah Tope	4 May 1799
Battle of Seringapatam	4 May 1799
Battle of Conagul	10 September 1800