Siege of Vellore: Difference between revisions

Name: Siege of Vellore
Start: 1782
End: 1782
Location: Vellore

Siege of Vellore
	Part of Second Anglo-Mysore War
Date	1780 – 1782; (2 years)
Location	Vellore, Kingdom of Mysore
Result	British victory
Belligerents
British East India Company	Kingdom of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
	Hyder Ali

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The siege of Vellore was an intermittent series of sieges and blockades conducted during the Second Anglo-Mysore War by forces of the Kingdom of Mysore against a British East India Company garrison holding the fortress at Vellore, located in the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

First besieged in 1780, Mysore's ruler Hyder Ali eventually reduced the siege to a blockade due to the need for troops elsewhere. The blockade was ineffectively maintained until 1782 before being abandoned. The British successfully resupplied the garrison of Colonel Ross Lang four times.

References[edit | edit source]

Vibart, H. M (1881). The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time, Volume 1

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-The '''Siege of Vellore''' was an intermittent series of [[siege]]s and [[blockade]]s conducted during the [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]] by forces of the [[Kingdom of Mysore]] against a [[British East India Company]] garrison holding the [[Vellore Fort|fortress]] at [[Vellore]], located in the present-day [[India]]n state of [[Tamil Nadu]].
+The '''siege of Vellore''' was an intermittent series of [[siege]]s and [[blockade]]s conducted during the [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]] by forces of the [[Kingdom of Mysore]] against a [[British East India Company]] garrison holding the [[Vellore Fort|fortress]] at [[Vellore]], located in the present-day [[India]]n state of [[Tamil Nadu]].
 First besieged in 1780, Mysore's ruler [[Hyder Ali]] eventually reduced the siege to a blockade due to the need for troops elsewhere.  The blockade was ineffectively maintained until 1782 before being abandoned. The British successfully resupplied the garrison of Colonel Ross Lang four times.
 ==References==
-*Vibart, H. M (1881). [https://books.google.com/books?id=QyxFAAAAYAAJ&dq=wandiwash%201781&pg=PA157#v=onepage&q=wandiwash%201781&f=false ''The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time'', Volume 1]
+*Vibart, H. M (1881). [https://books.google.com/books?id=QyxFAAAAYAAJ&dq=wandiwash+1781&pg=PA157 ''The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time'', Volume 1]
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