| Siege of Bangalore | |||||||
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| Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War | |||||||
 The Death of Colonel Moorhouse, Madras artillery, at the Storming of the Pettah Gate of Bangalore by Robert Home | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 British East India Company Great Britain |
 Sultanate of Mysore | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Charles Cornwallis |
Tipu Sultan (outside the lines)Sipahdar Syad Hamid Sahib (lower fort)Buhadur Khan Sahib[1] (upper fort) | ||||||
The siege of Bangalore was a siege of the town and fortifications of Bangalore during the Third Anglo-Mysore War by forces of the British East India Company, led by Charles, Earl Cornwallis against a Mysorean garrison, while Tipu Sultan, Mysore's ruler, harried the camps and positions of the besiegers. Arriving before the town on 5 February 1791, Cornwallis captured the town by assault on 7 February, and after six weeks of siege, stormed the fortress on 21 March.
- ^ Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 177. ISBN 9788131300343.