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.
| Siege of Darwar | |||||||
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| Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Maratha Empire British East India Company |
 Kingdom of Mysore | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Parushram Bhau Patwardhan John Little Charles Frederick John Sartorius |
Badr ul-Zaman Khan Sahib[1] | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 177. ISBN 9788131300343.
- Moor, Edward (1794). A narrative of the operations of captain Little's detachment, and of the Mahratta army (a detailed British account of the siege)
- Mill, James. A history of British India, Volume 5
- Duff, James Grant. A history of the Mahrattas, Volume 2
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