Siege of Seringapatam (1792)

Siege of Srirangapatana
Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
General Lord Cornwallis receiving Tipoo Sultan's sons as hostages, by Robert Home, c. 1793
Date 5 February – 18 March 1792 Location Srirangapattana, Mysore Result Decisive Allied victory Treaty of Seringapatam Mysore cedes roughly half of its territories to Allies.
Belligerents
East India Company Hyderabad Maratha Empire	Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Charles Cornwallis Robert Abercromby	Tipu Sultan

Decisive Allied victory

The 1792 Siege of Seringapatam was a battle and siege of the Mysorean capital city of Seringapatam (Srirangapatna) at the end of the Third Anglo-Mysore War. An army led by Charles, Earl Cornwallis consisting of British East India Company and British Army forces, along with allied forces from the Maratha Empire and the Nizam of Hyderabad, arrived at Seringapatam on 5 February 1792, and after less than three weeks of battle and siege, forced Tipu Sultan to capitulate. With his agreement to the Treaty of Seringapatam on 18 March 1792, the war came to an end.

The prospects for Tipu Sultan, the Muslim ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, had declined significantly during the 1791 campaign season of the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Although he had been able to reverse some advances made by forces of the British East India Company forces under General William Medows in 1790, he had lost ground on all fronts in 1791, and only a slash-and-burn policy to deprive his opponents of provisions and forage had prevented company forces under Charles Cornwallis from besieging his capital, Seringapatam. Cornwallis, whose army had been desperately short of provisions, withdrew to Bangalore in May 1791 to resupply his army and wait out the monsoon rains. Tipu took advantage of the British retreat to recover Coimbatore, but he lost several strong points when British forces captured Nundydroog and Savendroog late in 1791, and Britain's allies in the conflict, the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Marathas, also made territorial gains at his expense.

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