Battle of Calicut (1790)

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.

Order of battle

 * British forces
 * HM 75th Regiment
 * Native Grenadier Battalion
 * 7 companies 7th Battalion
 * 500 Travancore Horse
 * Battalion of Travancore Sepoys
 * Body of Irregular Nairs
 * 10 guns
 * Mysorean forces
 * 5,000 Mysoreans
 * 4,000 Mappilas