Siege of Seringapatam (1792)

Siege of Seringapatam
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 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 Parshuram Bhou Mahabat Jung	Tipu Sultan

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.