Siege of Vellore

Series of sieges during the Second Anglo-Mysore War at Vellore, in present-day Tamil Nadu

Siege of Vellore

Part of Second Anglo-Mysore War
| Date| 1780 – 1782
(2 years)

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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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Second
Anglo-Mysore War

* Thalassery
* Arcot
* 1st Pollilur
* Vellore
* Porto Novo
* 2nd Pollilur
* Sholinghur
* Negapatam
* Hyderghur
* Annagudi
* Bednore
* Cuddalore
* Palghautcherry
* Mangalore

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

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* 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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