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

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