Battle of Shimoga
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| Capture of Shimoga | |||||||
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| Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War | |||||||
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File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg Maratha Confederacy File:Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg East India Company | File:Flag of Mysore.svg Mysore | ||||||
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File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg Parshuram Bhou File:Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg John Little | File:Flag of Mysore.svg Reza Sahib (POW) | ||||||
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The Capture of Shimoga, a town and fortress held by forces of the Kingdom of Mysore, occurred on 3 January 1792, after a preliminary battle with the attacking forces of the British East India Company and the Marathas, not far from the town on 29 December, had scattered much of its defending army. The defenders surrendered after the fort's walls were breached. The battle was part of a campaign during the Third Anglo-Mysore War by Maratha leader Purseram Bhow to recover Maratha territories taken by Hyder Ali in an earlier conflict between Mysore and the Marathas. By the end of the siege, Reza Sahib a leading Mysore commander, was among the captured.[1]
References
- ↑ Jaques, Tony (30 November 2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 936. ISBN 978-0-313-02799-4.
