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*20,071 fighting men under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harris,_1st_Baron_Harris Lt-Gen George Harris]<br>'''CAVALRY'''<br>[12th Regiment of Foothttp://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]
*[[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]]
*[[4th Madras Native Cavalry]]
*[[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras Pioneers]]
*[[Madras Artillery]]
*[[1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|1st Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[2nd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|2nd Bengal Native Infantry]]
*[[Bengal Artillery]]
== External Links =='''INFANTRY'''<br>'''Right Wing'''<br />[http://www.heritage-historylib.mq.edu.comau/digital/wwwseringapatam/heritagegrand.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_mysore.php Mysore Warshtml#BRIDGES Maj-Gen Thomas Bridges] Heritage Historycommanding<br/>'''1st Brigade''' under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngloSir_David_Baird,_1st_Baronet Maj-Mysore_Wars Anglo-Mysore WarsGen David Baird]*[[12th Regiment of Foot]]*[[74th Regiment of Foot]]*[[94th Regiment of Foot]] Wikipedia<br/> '''3rd Brigade''' under [http://enwww.lib.mq.wikipediaedu.orgau/digital/seringapatam/wikigrand.html#GOWDIE Col Francis Gowdie]<br /Fourth_Anglo-Mysore_War 4th Mysore War 1798-99>*[[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]] Wikipedia<br/>
===== 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
→Historical books online
{{War|name=4th Mysore War |dates=1798-99 |image= |combatant1=[[East India Company]] |combatant2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore Kingdom of Mysore] |result=British victory<br> Mysore became a princely state of British India<br> Coimbatore, North Kanara, and South Kanara ceded to the British |category=[[:Category:4th Mysore War |4th Mysore War]] }}
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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 [[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_[James Stuart (British_Army_officer1741-1815) |Lt- Gen James Stuart]]''*Detachment of [[Bombay European Foot Artillery|Bombay Artillery]]<br>:[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/bombay.html#LAWMAN Lt-Col George A Lawman] (510)
*Detachment of Engineers<br>
:[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*[[3rd Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|1st Btn 2nd Bombay Native Infantry]](653)*[[7th Regiment of Bombay Infantry (Pioneers)|1st Btn 4th Bombay Native Infantry]](672)*[[5th Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|3rd Bombay Native Infantry]](663)<br>'''Centre Brigade'''<br>[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>[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)*[[4th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry (Rifle Corps)|2nd Btn 2nd Regiment Native Infantry]](675)
*[[Bombay Sappers and Miners|Pioneer Corps]]
== Grand Army ==
*[[22nd Light Dragoons|25th Light Dragoons]]
*[[2nd Madras Native Cavalry]]
*[[3rd Madras Native Cavalry]]
'''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>
1,000 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 ==
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 1799|Battle of Seringapatam]]
|4 May 1799
|-
|[[Battle of Conagul]]
|10 September 1800
|}
== Biographies ==
Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/22/mode/2up David Baird (1757-18229)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/148/mode/1up John Floyd (1748-18218)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/191/mode/1up George Harris (1746-1829)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/409/mode/1up James Stuart (1741-1815)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/424/mode/2up Tippoo Sultan (1753-1799)]<br>
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/445/mode/1up Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)]<br>
== External links ==
====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. 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://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>
=====Macquarie University 'Seringapatam 1799' project=====
*[httphttps://www.library.mq.edu.au/digitalmacquarie-archive/seringapatam / Seringapatam 1799: letters and journals of Major Lachlan Macquarie in India] Main page*[httphttps://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digitalmacquarie-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 {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
[[Category:Wars and Campaigns|Mysore War, 4th]]
[[Category:4th Mysore War| 4th Mysore War]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Mysore War, 4th]]
