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|partof=[http[://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Mysore_War Category:3rd Mysore War|3rd Mysore War]]
|date=6-21 March 1791
|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore [Bangalore]], Tamil Nadu] |presidency=[[MadrasPresidency]]
|co-ordinates=[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=12.908001,77.64101&z=10&t=h&hl=en 12.908001°N 77.641010°E]
|result=British victory
|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
|combatant2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore Kingdom of Mysore]
|commander1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis,_1st_Marquess_Cornwallis [Charles Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]]|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan [Tipu Sultan]]
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The battle of [[Bangalore]] saw the storming of the town (Bangalore Pettah) and the subsequent capture of Bangalore Fort.
== External Links ==
[http://wwwen.heritage-historywikipedia.comorg/wwwwiki/heritage.php?Dir=wars&FileName=wars_mysore.php Heritage History Anglo-Mysore_Wars Anglo- Mysore Wars]Wikipedia<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Mysore_Wars Wikipedia - AngloThird_Anglo-Mysore_War 3rd Mysore Wars WarsWar]Wikipedia<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mDUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA65&dq=Bangalore=rbgZSfC5AY6KswOqgtXGAQ#PPA65,M1 Bangalore] Gazetteer 1857 ====Historical books online====*''Annals of the wars of the eighteenth century Vol IV'' by Sir Edward Cust 1862 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Pr4aeiuz4IMC&pg=PA62&dq=Bangalore&as_brr=1&ei=pIOoR_LHNI3WzASOssDPDw#PPA64,M1 Capture of Bangalore]*''The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time, Volume 1''] by Henry Meredith Vibart 1881 [http://www.archive.org/stream/militaryhistoryo01viba#page/222/mode/2up Siege of Bangalore] *''Select views in Mysore, the country of Tippoo Sultan: from drawings taken on the spot'' by Robert Home 1808 (first published 1794) Google Books . **[http://books.google.com/books?id=D1hKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP10 Monuments erected to the memory of those brave officers who fell at the taking of Bangalore]**[http://books.google.com/books?id=D1hKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP54 View of the Burial Ground at Bangalore] [[Category:Battles|Bangalore, Battle of]][[Category:Campaign of 1791- Capture 92|Bangalore, Battle of ]][[Category:3rd Mysore War|Bangalore, Battle of]]
