Battle of Calicut

Overview

The Battle of Tirurangadi was a series of engagements that took place between 7 and 12 December 1790 at Tirurangadi near the port of Calicut on the Malabar Coast of India, during the Third Anglo-Mysore War.

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Significance

The Battle of Calicut (fought at Tirurangadi near the port of Calicut on the Malabar Coast) comprised a series of engagements between 7 and 12 December 1790 during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. East India Company forces under James Hartley faced Mysorean commanders Martab Khan and Hussain Ali Khan in this coastal theater of the broader conflict between the Company and Tipu Sultan's kingdom. The Malabar Coast represented a strategically important front in the war, and operations in this region were part of the wider effort to contest Mysorean control over territories on India's southwestern littoral.

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