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Siege of Seringapatam

Name: Siege of Seringapatam
Location: Srirangapatna, India

Siege of Seringapatam was a siege conducted in 1799 at Srirangapatna, in what is now India. It was part of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, which ran from 1798 to 1799. The recorded result: British victory; Fall of the Mysore Kingdom.

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Fought1799

WhereSrirangapatna, India12.418N, 76.695E

OutcomeBritish victory; Fall of the Mysore Kingdom

BelligerentsEast India Company; 22px HyderabadagainstMysore; France

Casualties and losses1,400 killed or woundedand6,000 to 10,000 killed

Part ofFourth Anglo-Mysore War1798 to 1799

Record

Date	1799 (year precision) to 4 May 1799
Place	Srirangapatna, India 12.418N, 76.695E
Kind	Siege, Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Strength	50,000 total; 22,000 Sepoys; 4,000 Europeans; 16,000 Nizam's horsemen; 10 battalions of Hyderabadi infantry (~8,000); 100 to 120 guns	20,000 soldiers; 10,000 volunteers
Casualties and losses	1,400 killed or wounded	6,000 to 10,000 killed
Commanders	George Harris, 1st Baron Harris Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II	Tipu Sultan Purnaiah Abdul Ghaffar Sahib Mir Golam Hussain Mohomed Hulleen

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Mallavelly 1799, 0.8 km NW
Siege of Seringapatam 1792, 1.1 km SE
Siege of Seringapatam 1659, 1.1 km SE
Siege of Savendroog 1791, 86 km NE
Siege of Bangalore 1791, 116 km NE

Contested ground: this site was fought over 4 times between 1659 and 1799.

In the same war

After: Battle of Mallavelly 27 March 1799

Elsewhere in 1799

Siege of Seringapatam is one of 2,009 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 354 in present-day India.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q815204, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Seringapatam (1799), revision 1381152210, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.