It was the last occasion when an Indian king had dictated terms to the mighty British
Pimp My Profile href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnBpbXAtbXktcH JvZmlsZS5jb20v" style="font-size:9px"Pimp My Profile never compromised myself to the main principles of my life , and never submitted myself to the supremacy of any foreign power. my plan of action to free India from colonial shackles forms an illustrious chapter of our history. i used all my means, energy, strength and resources not sparing even my life for the freedom of the land. Even in his dreams i remained engaged in a bitter fight against the English. my maxim was that "it was far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years".Second Mysore WarTippu Sultan led a large body of troops in the Second Mysore War, in February 1782, and defeated Braithwaite on the banks of the Kollidam. Although the British were defeated this time, Tippu Sultan realized that the British were a new kind of threat in India. Upon becoming the Sultan after his father's death later that year, he worked to check the advances of the British by making alliances with the Marathas and the Mughals.Tippu Sultan had defeated Colonel Braithwaite at Annagudi near Tanjore on 18 February 1782. The British army, consisting of 100 Europeans, 300 cavalry, 1400 sepoys and 10 field pieces, was the standard size of the colonial armies. Tippu Sultan had seized all the guns and taken the entire detachment prisoners. In December 1781 Tippu Sultan had successfully seized Chittur from the British. Tippu Sultan had thus gained sufficient military experience by the time Haidar Ali died in December 1782.The Second Mysore War came to an end with the Treaty of Mangalore. It was the last occasion when an Indian king had dictated terms to the mighty British, and the treaty is a prestigious document in the history of India. Battle of Pollilur Mural of the Battle of Pollilur on the walls of Tippu's summer palace, painted to celebrate his triumph over the British. Mural of the Battle of Pollilur on the walls of Tippu's summer palace, painted to celebrate his triumph over the British.The Battle of Pollilur took place in 1780 at Pollilur near the city of Kanchipuram. It was a part of the second Anglo-Mysore war. Tippu Sultan was dispatched by Haidar Ali with 10,000 men and 18 guns to intercept Colonel Baillie who was on his way to join Sir Hector Munro. Out of 360 Europeans, about 200 were captured alive, and the sepoys, who were about about 3800 men, suffered very high casualties. Sir Hector Munro, the victor of the Battle of Buxar, who had earlier defeated three Indian rulers (the Mughal emperor Shah Alam, the Nawab of Oudh Shuja-ud-daula, and the Nawab of Bengal Mir Qasim) in a single battle, was forced to retreat to Madras, abandoning his artillery in the tank of Kanchipuram.
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