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====Inquiry====
A court of inquiry was held from the 30th October to the 4th November. It was discovered that Hyder Ali Khan was well financed and had attracted the support of as many Sepoys and Native Officers as he could by entertaining them at his house. He also managed to enlist the support of a number of disbanded troopers and discharged Sepoys formerly in the service of the Rajah of Mysore. Several hundred Pindarees [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindari Pindaris] were prepared to join the mutiny when the signal of revolt was given and the [[Coorg]] Rajah's ambassador had promised to send 12,000 mounted and 7,000 foot soldiers once he received news that the mutiny had taken place.
By means of a ruse, a sympathetic [[Havildar]] of the [[9th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry]] was stationed on the Mysore gate at Bangalore on the night of the 28th, his task being to admit the mutineers. Once in the arsenal, the guard contingent would be killed, magazines would be seized and arms distributed. Next the main guard was to be killed along with Major-General Hawker. A gun would be fired from the ramparts and a green flag displayed as the signal for the other parties of mutineers. The Native Horse Artillery would butcher the European gunners and train the guns on the barracks of the 62nd Foot and 13th Light Dragoons. The ropes tethering the dragoon's horses would be cut and the Pindarees would take the horses whilst the guns were fired on the barracks. The mutineers calculated that if enough grapeshot was fired into the barracks there would be little chance of those inside escaping.
