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{{Battlemap|war=2nd Mysore War |link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=p&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.00046bc2d9fd3d0acb344&z=7}}
The Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-83) was between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyder_Ali Hyder Ali] ruler of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_kingdom Kingdom of Mysore] allied with the French and the [[Madras Presidency]] of the British [[East India Company]]. Following the failure of negotiations to resolve grievances against the British, Hyder Ali opened hostilities by laying waste the countryside around Vellore and Madras. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Mysore_War#Treaty_of_Mangalore Treaty of Mangalore] was signed on 11 March 1784 restoring the situation to that before the war. It was considered a humiliation by the British.
== Summary ==
{{War|name=2nd Mysore War |dates=1780-83 |image= |combatant1=[[East India Company]] |result= British signed humiliating treaty|combatant2=Kingdom of Mysore |category=[[:Category:2nd Mysore War |2nd Mysore War ]] }}
{{Battlemap|war=2nd Mysore War |link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=p&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.00046bc2d9fd3d0acb344&z=7}}
The Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-83) was between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyder_Ali Hyder Ali] ruler of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_kingdom Kingdom of Mysore] allied with the French and the [[Madras Presidency]] of the British [[East India Company]]. Following the failure of negotiations to resolve grievances against the British, Hyder Ali opened hostilities by laying waste the countryside around Vellore and Madras. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Mysore_War#Treaty_of_Mangalore Treaty of Mangalore] was signed on 11 March 1784 restoring the situation to that before the war. It was considered a humiliation by the British.
== Biographies ==
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/93/mode/1up Eyre Coote (1726-1783)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/209/mode/1up Edward Hughes (1720-1794)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/212/mode/2up Hyder Ali (1717 or 22-1782)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/265/mode/1up Norman MacLeod (1754-1801)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/409/mode/1up Pierre Andre de Suffrein (1726-1788)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/424/mode/2up Tippoo Sultan (1753-1799)]<br>
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
[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=PA64 page 64], 1782
===Other===
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Es6x4u_g19UC&pg=PA23&dq=Mysore&as_brr=3&hl=en#PPA23,M1 War Chronology] Google Books<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 Wars] Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Mysore_War 2nd Mysore War 1780-84] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/joppenlate1700s/joppenlate1700s.html#hyder1780 Joppen Historical Maps - Hyder's Dominions 1780] www.columbia.edu<br>[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/colonial/joppenlate1700s/joppenlate1700s.html#mysore1784 Map to illustrate the 4 Mysore Wars] www.columbia.edu
[[Category:Wars and Campaigns|Mysore War, 2nd]]
[[Category:2nd Mysore War| 2nd Mysore War]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Mysore War, 2nd]]
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
