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  • Battle of Calicut (1790)
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  • The Battle of Calicut (also called the Battle of Tervanagary or Thiroorangadi) was a series of engagements that took place between 7 and 12 December 1790 near the port of Calicut on the Malabar Coast of India, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. A force of three regiments from the British East India Company, about 1,500 men, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Hartley, decisively defeated a 9,000 man Mysorean army, killing or wounding about 1,000, and taking a large number of prisoners, including the commander, Hussein Ali Khan Sahib of Mysore.
Strength
  • 1500
  • 9000
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Partof
  • the Third Anglo-Mysore War
Date
  • --12-12
Commander
  • Hussein Ali Khan Sahib
  • Martab Khan Sahib
  • James Hartley
Casualties
  • 52
  • 1000
  • 2400
Result
  • British victory
combatant
  • British East India Company
  • Sultanate of Mysore
  • Kingdom of Travancore
Place
Conflict
  • Battle of Calicut
abstract
  • The Battle of Calicut (also called the Battle of Tervanagary or Thiroorangadi) was a series of engagements that took place between 7 and 12 December 1790 near the port of Calicut on the Malabar Coast of India, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. A force of three regiments from the British East India Company, about 1,500 men, led by Lieutenant Colonel James Hartley, decisively defeated a 9,000 man Mysorean army, killing or wounding about 1,000, and taking a large number of prisoners, including the commander, Hussein Ali Khan Sahib of Mysore.