Battle of Calicut (1790)

Battle of Calicut
Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
Date 7–12 December 1790 Location Malabar coast Result British victory
Belligerents
British East India Company Kingdom of Travancore	Sultanate of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
James Hartley	Martab Khan Sahib Hussein Ali Khan Sahib
Strength
1,500	9,000
Casualties and losses
52 killed	1,000 killed 2,400 captured

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

See also

• Mysore invasion of Kerala

References

• Harbottle, Thomas Benfield. Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time
• Mill, James. A history of British India, Volume 5
• Miles, W (translator). The history of the Reign of Tipu Sultan
• Logan, William Malabar Manual, Volume 1

External links

• Dictionary of Indian Biography - James Hartley 1743-1799 archive.org
• Portrait and Biographical Information on James Hartley Christies.com auctioneers
• Heritage History - Mysore Wars
• Calicut - Gazetteer 1857
• DNB Biography of James Hartley