Thursday 27 August 2015

27th AUGUST 1781 BATTLE OF POLLILUR FOUGHT BETWEEN HYDER ALI AND BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY

Battle of Pollilur (1781)

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Battle of Pollilur
Part of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
Date27 August 1781
LocationPollilur, Kanchipuram, India
ResultCompany victory
Belligerents
 British East India Company Sultanate of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Eyre CooteHyder Ali
Strength
11,000[1]unknown
Casualties and losses
421[2]2,000+[3]
The Battle of Pollilur was fought on 27 August 1781, between forces of the Kingdom of Mysore under Hyder Ali and British East India Company forces led by General Eyre Coote. The battle was fought on the site of a 1780 encounter in which a Company force was almost completely killed or captured.
In the 1781 battle, the company's army was organized into 2 lines. One line fought against the troops under Tipu. But Hyder Ali's army faced severe casualties and retreated to Kanchipuram.
After the battle a shortage of provisions led Coote to move his forces toward Tripasur.[4] Hyder interpreted this as a retreat, and claimed victory.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Roy p.85
  2. Jump up^ Roy p.85
  3. Jump up^ Roy p.85
  4. Jump up^ Roy p.85

Bibliography[edit]

  • Roy, Kaushik. War, Culture, Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849. Routledge, 2011.
  • Vibart, H. M (1881). The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time, Volume 1

Battle of Pollilur (1780)

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This article is about the 1780 battle. For the 1781 battle, see Battle of Pollilur (1781).
Battle of Pollilur
Part of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
Battle of pollilur.jpg
Mural of the Battle of Pollilur on the walls of Tipu's summer palace.
Date10 September 1780
LocationPollilur, Kanchipuram, India
ResultDecisive Mysore victory
Belligerents
Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg British East India CompanyFlag of Mysore.svg Sultanate of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
William BailleTipu Sultan
Strength
4,000[1] to 7,000[2]2,000–3,000cavalry & rocket-men[3]
Casualties and losses
3000 killed,[4]
200[4] to 7,000[2] captured		Unknown
The Battle of Pollilur, also known as the Battle of Polilore or Battle of Perambakam, took place on 10 September 1780 at Pollilur near the city of Kanchipuram in present-day Tamil Nadu state, India as part of the Second Anglo-Mysore War. It was waged between two forces commanded by Tipu Sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore, and Colonel William Baille of the British East India Company. The army of the East India Company surrendered and suffered a high number of casualties. It was the worst loss the British suffered on the subcontinent until Chillianwala.

Aftermath[edit]

The Battle of Pollilur, where the forces of Hyder Ali effectively usedMysorean rockets and rocket artilleryagainst closely massed British forces.
Baille and many of his officers were captured and taken to the Mysore capital at Srirangapattana. After British reinforcements from Calcutta arrived, Eyre Coote was able to stabilise the situation and counter-attack. A second battle was fought a year later in the same area where Coote defeated Haider Ali's forces.

Rockets[edit]

The Mysore rockets used during the battle were much more advanced than the British East India Company had previously seen, chiefly because of the use of iron tubes for holding the propellant; this enabled higher thrust and longer range for the missile (up to 2 km range). After Tipu Sultan's eventual defeat in theFourth Anglo-Mysore War and the capture of the Mysore iron rockets, they were influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, which was soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars.[5]

See also[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • Baillie Dungeon, Seringapatam (2004)
  • Narrow Passage to Colonel Baillie's Dungeon, Seringapatam (2004)

External links[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Gott, Richard (2000). Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt. London: Verso Books. p. 76. ISBN 1-84467-738-9. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Dalrymple, William (1 October 2005). "ASSIMILATION AND TRANSCULTURATION IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDIA: A Response to Pankaj Mishra". Common Knowledge 11 (3): 445–485. doi:10.1215/0961754X-11-3-445. Retrieved 8 February 2012. As late as 1780, following the disastrous British defeat by Tipu Sultan of Mysore at the Battle of Pollilur, 7,000 British men, along with an unknown number of women, were held captive by Tipu in his sophisticated fortress of Seringapatam.
  3. Jump up^ Jaim, H M Iftekhar; Jaim, Jasmine (1 October 2011). "The Decisive Nature of the Indian War Rocket in the Anglo-Mysore Wars of the Eighteenth Century". Arms & Armour 8 (2): 131–138. doi:10.1179/174962611X13097916223244. Retrieved 8 February 2012.Captain Munro noted: 'Around two or three thousand horse and rocket-men kept hovering round our main army, in order to conceal his enterprise from us'.
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b Jasanoff, Maya (2005). Edge of empire: lives, culture, and conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (1. ed.). New York: Knopf. p. 157. ISBN 1-4000-4167-8. Some three thousand Company soldiers were killed, while Baillie and two hundred Europeans, fifty of them officers, were carried off to Seringapatam in chains.
  5. Jump up^ Roddam Narasimha (1985). Rockets in Mysore and Britain, 1750-1850 A.D. National Aeronautical Laboratory and Indian Institute of Science.
  • Tipu Sultan website
  • Wilson, W. J. History of the Madras Army, Volume 2
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