4th Mysore War

4th Mysore War
1798-99
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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

• 75th Regiment of Foot (233)
• HEIC European Regiment of Foot (528)
• 77th Regiment of Foot (693)
  

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

• 19th Light Dragoons
• 1st Madras Native Cavalry
• 4th Madras Native Cavalry
  

2nd Brigade under Col John Pater

• 25th Light Dragoons
• 2nd Madras Native Cavalry
• 3rd Madras Native Cavalry

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

• 12th Regiment of Foot
• 74th Regiment of Foot
• 94th Regiment of Foot
  

3rd Brigade under Col Francis Gowdie

• 1st Btn 1st Madras Native Infantry
• 1st Btn 6th Madras Native Infantry
• 1st Btn 12th Madras Native Infantry
  

5th Brigade under Col George Roberts

• 1st Btn 8th Madras Native Infantry
• 2nd Btn 3rd Madras Native Infantry
• 2nd Btn 12th Madras Native Infantry
  

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

• 2nd Btn 5th Madras Native Infantry
• 2nd Btn 5th Madras Native Infantry
  

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

Related articles

For further details of events during this period see the following articles

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

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

• Seringapatam 1799: letters and journals of Major Lachlan Macquarie in India Main page
• Chronology

Historical maps online

• Joppen Historical Maps - India 1795 www.columbia.edu