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*[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
*[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.
*[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
*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.
**[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.

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4th Mysore War
1798-99
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location:
Combatants:
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
Medals:
Links:
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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

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

Centre Brigade
Lt-Col James Dunlop commanding

Left Brigade
Lt-Col John Wiseman commanding

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

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

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

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

Other

Macquarie University 'Seringapatam 1799' project
Historical maps online