Parshuram Bhau's Carnatic Campaign: Difference between revisions

===March towards Seringapatam===

The siege of Darwar was a twenty-nine-week [[siege]] of the fort at [[Dharwad]] in 1790 and 1791, then near the frontier, between the [[Kingdom of Mysore]] and the [[Maratha Empire]].  The Marathas, assisted by forces of the [[British East India Company]], began the siege on 18 September 1790 and resulted with the surrender of Mysore garrison on 3 April 1791.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Moor |first=Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tEoOAAAAQAAJ |title=A Narrative of the Operations of Captain Little's Detachment, and of the Mahratta Army, Commanded by Purseram Bhow: During the Late Confederacy in India, Againt the Nawab Tippoo Sultan Bahadur |date=1794 |publisher=author |language=en}}</ref>. The allied forces then marched towards Hooly. The Capture of Hooly Honore, a town and fortress held by forces of the [[Kingdom of Mysore]], occurred on 21 December 1791, after two days of siege by combined forces of the [[British East India Company]] and the [[Maratha Confederacy]].  The battle was part of a campaign during the [[Third Anglo-Mysore War]] by Maratha leader Purseram to recover Maratha territories taken by [[Hyder Ali]] in an earlier conflict between Mysore and the Marathas.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duff |first=James Grant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_Pc4ZQMoy0C&dq=hurry+punt&pg=PA199 |title=A History of the Mahrattas |date=1921 |publisher=H. Milford, Oxford University Press |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mill |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hlQIAAAAQAAJ&dq=Darwar+siege+1790&pg=PA275 |title=The History of British India |date=1858 |publisher=James Madden; Piper, Stephenson and Spence |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moor |first=Edward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tEoOAAAAQAAJ&q=hooly+honore&pg=PA143 |title=A Narrative of the Operations of Captain Little's Detachment, and of the Mahratta Army, Commanded by Purseram Bhow: During the Late Confederacy in India, Againt the Nawab Tippoo Sultan Bahadur |date=1794 |publisher=author |language=en}}</ref>. 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 [[Maratha Empire|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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jaques |first=Tony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbLOEAAAQBAJ |title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes] |date=2006-11-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-02799-4 |pages=936 |language=en}}</ref>

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