Conquests of Shahu II

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• January 1801: Junagarh State was ruled by Mohammad Hamid Khanji I, who became a tributary to the Maratha Empire in 1800. However, in 1807, the territory came under British suzerainty during his reign.
• January 1791: Korea State conquered by Maratha Empire.
• June 1790: Jaipur and Jodhpur, the two most powerful Rajput states, were still out of direct Maratha domination. So, Mahadji sent his general Benoît de Boigne to crush the forces of Jaipur and Jodhpur at the Battle of Patan.
• January 1801: Jigni State's size was much reduced during the Maratha invasion in the last half of the eighteenth century.
• January 1784: In 1780, Cambay was captured by the British Army under the leadership of General Goddard Richards during the First Anglo-Maratha War. However, the territory was later returned to the Maratha Empire in 1783 as a result of the Treaty of Salbai.
• January 1809: Sambalpur was invaded and occupied by the Marathas between 1808 and 1817.
• January 1801: Piploda was reduced to a great extent and the thakur was forced to become a vassal of Amir Khan Pindari.

1. First Anglo-Maratha War

Was the first of three Anglo-Maratha Wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India. .

2. Third Anglo-Mysore War

Was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company, the Kingdom of Travancore, the Maratha Empire, and the Nizam of Hyderabad. It was the third of four Anglo-Mysore Wars.

2.1. Mysore retreat from Travancore

Was the retreat of the Kingdom of Mysore from Travancore, caused by the monsoon rains, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.

• January 1789: The Rajah of Coorg was restored by the British.
• January 1790: Husain Ali Khan died in 1783, and his young son, Ghulam Muhammad Ali, succeeded him, with his paternal uncle as regent. Within the space of a year, Hyder's successor Tipu Sultan had driven them from Banganapalle; they took refuge in Hyderabad, returning to reclaim Banganapalle in 1789.

2.2. British attack to Mysore

Was a British military campaign of 1790 in the Kingdom of Mysore during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.

• July 1790: On 21 July British forces led by Medows entered Coimbatore unopposed.
• September 1790: Further strong points in the district fell to the British East India Company, with Palghat and Dindigul requiring significant action to capture.

2.3. Mysore Counterattack

Was a Mysore counterattack of 1790-1791 against British invasion.

• November 1791: Siege of Coimbatore.
• September 1790: British Captain John Floyd withdraw from Sathyamangalam.
• July 1791: Cornwallis' retreat to Bangalore exposed the Coimbatore district to Tipu's forces.

2.4. Allied advances

During the summer of 1790, a Maratha army of some 30,000 under the command of Purseram Bhow, accompanied by a detachment of British troops from Bombay invaded the Kingdom of Mysore.

• May 1791: The Nizam of Hyderabad's army, led by Mahabat Jung, advanced to Koppal, which they besieged in October 1790. Poor-quality cannons impeded the conduct of the siege, which was not successfully concluded until April 1791.
• October 1791: The siege of Nundydroog was conducted by British East India Company forces under the command of General Charles Cornwallis in October 1791.
• October 1790: During the summer of 1790, a Maratha army of some 30,000 under the command of Purseram Bhow, accompanied by a detachment of British troops from Bombay, began marching toward Mysore. The first several Mysorean outposts surrendered in the face of the large army, and it made steady if slow progress until it reached Darwar in September.
• May 1791: The Maratha army then continued to advance, reaching the Tungabhadra River in early May.
• December 1790: The British East India Company captured Cannanore.
• November 1791: In 1791, Purseram Bhow, a commander in the Maratha Empire, captured Hooly Honore and Shimoga in an attempt to recapture the Bednore district taken by Tipu Sultan's father, Hyder Ali, in a previous war.
• December 1790: Battle of Calicut.
• March 1791: Siege of Bangalore.
• February 1791: A second army, consisting of 25,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry under the command of Hurry Punt assisted by a detachment of British soldiers from the Madras army, left Poona in January 1791, eventually reaching Kurnool without significant opposition.
• March 1791: Lord Cornwallis led the British East India Company forces in the capture of Bangalore in 1791 during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
• June 1791: The British troops of Hurry Punt moved out from Kurnoo.
• December 1791: Siege of Savendroog.
• May 1791: In 1791, during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, British General Cornwallis defeated Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam. The battle on 15 May forced Tipu to retreat behind the city's walls, leading to the territory falling under the control of the British East India Company.

2.5. Treaty of Seringapatam

Was the treaty that ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Mysore lost about one-half of its territories.

• March 1792: Treaty of Seringapatam: Under its terms Mysore ceded about one-half of its territories to the other signatories. The Peshwa acquired territory up to the Tungabhadra River, the Nizam was awarded land from the Krishna to the Penner River, and the forts of Cuddapah and Gandikota on the south bank of the Penner. The East India Company received a large portion of Mysore's Malabar Coast territories between the Kingdom of Travancore and the Kali River, and the Baramahal and Dindigul districts. Mysore granted the rajah of Coorg his independence, although Coorg effectively became a company dependency.

3. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Was the fourth and final Anglo-Mysore war. After the war, the Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India.

3.1. British Invasion (Fourth Anglo-Mysore War)

Was a British military operation in the Kingdom of Mysore during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.

• May 1799: In the Battle of Seringapatam, the British broke through the defending walls. Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, rushing to the breach, was shot and killed.
• November 1798: Three armies of the British East India Company marched into Mysore in 1799 and besieged the capital, Srirangapatnam, after some engagements with Tipu.

3.2. Partition of Mysore

After the loss of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, Mysore was occupied and partitioned. The remnant territories became a princely state of British India.

• June 1799: Britain took indirect control of Mysore, restoring the Wodeyar Dynasty to the Mysore throne.
• June 1799: After the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, several Mysore territories were ceded to neighbour states.