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{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:2nd Mysore War|2nd Mysore War]]
|date=28 April 1783
|location=[[Bednore]], Karnataka
|presidency=[[Madras]]
|combatant1=[[East India Company]]
|combatant2==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore Kingdom of Mysore]
|commander1=General Richard Matthews
|commander2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan Tipu Sultan]
|strength1= 600 Europeans<br>1,600 sepoys
|casualties2=
}}
== Summary ==
The fortress of Bednore had been surrendered to General Matthews on 14 February. Tipu Sultan came with an overwhelming body of troops and forced the British to retreat to the citadel. After seventeen days they surrendered and General Matthews and his army were taken into captivity. Mathews was executed on 16 August 1783.
== Company forces ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Anglo-Mysore_War 2nd Mysore War] Wikipedia<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OHcIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA406&dq=Bednore&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=tb1GSLXTIJ7wigHRsOWTDQ#PPA406,M11 Capture and Loss of Bednore] Google Books<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yK0WAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=Bednore+1783&hl=en&ei=qoR3TLOpMI3CswaD2uX2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Bednore%201783&f=false Mathews surrender at Bednore] Google Books<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA443&dq=General+Richard+Mathews+1783&hl=en&ei=qu53TLObBqeJOP2txY4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false Record of General Mathews death] Google Books
