The Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-84)
- The first Anglo-Mysore War took place in 1767-69.
- Haider Ali emerged victorious against the British and at the end of the War a defensive treaty was concluded between Haider Ali and the British.
- After eleven years, the Second Mysore War broke out
The main causes for the second Anglo Mysore War were:
- The British failed to fulfil the terms of the defensive treaty with Haider when he was attacked by the Marathas in 1771
- There was an outbreak of hostilities between the English and the French (an ally of Haider) during the American War of Independence
- The British captured Mahe, a French settlement within Haider’s territories
- Haider Ali formed a grand alliance with the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Marathas against the British in 1779.
- The War began when the British led their forces through
- Haider’s territory without his permission to capture Guntur in the Northern Sarkars.
- Haider Ali defeated Colonel Baillie and captured Arcot in 1780.
- In the next year, Warren Hastings, by a clever stroke of diplomacy, divided the Confederacy.
- He made peace with the Nizam, won the friendship of Bhonsle and came to an understanding with the Scindia (both Marathas)
- Consequently, Haider was isolated without any alliance.
- He was defeated by Sir Eyre Coote at Porto Novo in March 1781.
- In December 1782, Haider died of cancer at the age of sixty and his death was kept secret till his son Tipu Sultan assumed power.
- The Second Mysore War came to an end by the Treaty of Mangalore in 1783.