Significant1780
Battle of Pollilur (1780)
Pollilur · near Kanchipuram · Tamil Nadu
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
On 10 September 1780, during the Second Anglo-Mysore War, Mysorean forces under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan annihilated a British East India Company column under William Baillie near Pollilur, one of the Company's worst defeats in India and a notable use of iron-cased rockets.
Belligerents2
- Kingdom of Mysore
- British East India Company
ON THE MAPBritish India (Bengal, 1765)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Pollilur (1780)
- Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Pollilur (1780) (1780). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-pollilur-1780 · Sources & methodology