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The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) was a war in South India
South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
 between the Kingdom of Mysore
Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore....
 and the British East India Company
British East India Company

The East India Company was an early England joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the Indies, but that ended up trading with the Indian subcontinent and China....
 under the Earl of Mornington
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an Kingdom of Ireland politician and colonial administrator....
.

Napoleon's landing in Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 in 1798 was intended to threaten India, and Mysore
Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore....
 was a key to that next step and as the ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan

Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu November, 1750, Devanahalli ? 4 May, 1799, Srirangapattana), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his own demise in 1799....
 was a staunch ally of France.






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The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) was a war in South India
South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area....
 between the Kingdom of Mysore
Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore....
 and the British East India Company
British East India Company

The East India Company was an early England joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the Indies, but that ended up trading with the Indian subcontinent and China....
 under the Earl of Mornington
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

Richard Colley Wesley, later Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an Kingdom of Ireland politician and colonial administrator....
.

Napoleon's landing in Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 in 1798 was intended to threaten India, and Mysore
Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a kingdom of southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore....
 was a key to that next step and as the ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan

Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu November, 1750, Devanahalli ? 4 May, 1799, Srirangapattana), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his own demise in 1799....
 was a staunch ally of France. Although Horatio Nelson crushed Napoleon's ambitions at the Battle of the Nile
Battle of the Nile

At the Battle of the Nile or Aboukir Bay , a Kingdom of Great Britain fleet under Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson surprised and largely destroyed a France fleet under Fran?ois-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers anchored near Alexandria, Egypt, stranding Napoleon's army in Egypt....
, three armies - one from Bombay, and two British (one of which contained a division that was commanded by Colonel Arthur Wellesley
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Order of the Garter, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Royal Guelphic Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Royal Society , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the nineteenth century....
 the future 1st Duke of Wellington
Duke of Wellington

The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington, Somerset in Somerset, is an hereditary title and the senior rank in the Peerage of the United Kingdom....
) - nevertheless marched into Mysore in 1799 and besieged the capital, Srirangapatnam after some engagements with the Tipu's armies. On 8 March, a forward force managed to hold off an advance by Tipu at the Battle of Seedaseer
Battle of Seedaseer

The Battle of Seedaseer was a battle of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War on 6 March 1799 at Seedaseer, a hill and pass on the border of the Coorga and Mysore country seven miles from Periapatam and with a view almost as far as Battle of Seringapatam....
. On 4 May, the armies broke through
Battle of Seringapatam

The Battle of Seringapatam was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the East India Company of Kingdom of Great Britian and the Kingdom of Mysore....
 the defending walls and Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan

Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu November, 1750, Devanahalli ? 4 May, 1799, Srirangapattana), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his own demise in 1799....
, rushing to the breach, was shot and killed. Tipu was betrayed in this war by one of his commanders, Mir Sadiq
Mir Sadiq

Mir Sadiq held the post of a minister in the Cabinet of Tipu Sultan of Mysore in India. In the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, he is alleged to have betrayed the Tipu and sided with the United Kingdom, paving the way for a British victory....
, a traitor who was bought by the British. He sent the army to collect wages at the height of the battle thus giving the British a chance to enter through the hole made through bombardment of the wall.

One notable military advance championed by Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan

Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu November, 1750, Devanahalli ? 4 May, 1799, Srirangapattana), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 until his own demise in 1799....
 was the use of mass attacks with iron
Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
-cased rocket
Rocket

A rocket or rocket vehicle is a missile, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust by the Reaction of the rocket to the ejection of fast moving fluid exhaust from a rocket engine....
 brigades in the army. The effect of these weapons on the British during the Third and Fourth Mysore Wars
Anglo-Mysore Wars

The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of wars fought in India over the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, represented chiefly by the Madras Presidency....
 was sufficiently impressive to inspire William Congreve
William Congreve (inventor)

Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet , was an England inventor and rocket artillery pioneer distinguished for his development and deployment of Congreve rockets....
 to develop the Congreve rocket
Congreve rocket

The Congreve Rocket was a United Kingdom military weapon designed by William Congreve in 1804.The British were greatly impressed by the Mysorean Rocket artillery made from iron tubes used by the armies of Tipu Sultan and his father, Haidar Ali....
s.

This was the last of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars
Anglo-Mysore Wars

The Anglo-Mysore Wars were a series of wars fought in India over the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, represented chiefly by the Madras Presidency....
. The British took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the Wodeyar
Wodeyar

The Wodeyar dynasty was an Indian royal dynasty that ruled the Kingdom of Mysore from 1399 to 1947, until the independence of India from British Raj and the subsequent unification of British dominions and princely states into the Republic of India....
 dynasty to the Mysore throne (with a British commissioner to advise him on all issues). Tipu's young heir, Fateh Ali, was sent into exile. The Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state
Princely state

For other uses, see Principality, Princely state#Other princely statesA Princely State was a nominally sovereign entity of British rule in India that was not directly administered by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy....
 of British India, and ceded Coimbatore
Coimbatore District

Coimbatore District is one of the more affluent and industrially advanced districts of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in India. The headquarters of the district is Coimbatore city, the second largest city in Tamil Nadu, which is located approximately 497 km from Chennai, the state capital, and 330 km from Bangalore....
, North Kanara, and South Kanara to the British.

The war, specifically the Battle of Mallevey and the Siege of Seringapatam are portrayed in the novel Sharpe's Tiger which portrays many of the key protagonists.

See also

Battle of Seringapatam
Battle of Seringapatam

The Battle of Seringapatam was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the East India Company of Kingdom of Great Britian and the Kingdom of Mysore....