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The death of the Maratha Peshwa, Madhavrao II, plunged the Maratha Confederacy into a civil war. Maratha politics were highly complex... -
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The British field army in Hyderabad, under the command of the British General John Little, was determined to protect their new de-facto...
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With the entrance of Hyderabad and the Marathas into the war, Tipu Sultan was forced to turn his attention north, as the Marathas and...
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Tensions between Mysore and Travancore had been building for long years. Travancore felt threatened by Mysore, an aggressive and...
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With nothing resolved between Mysore and the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad, and ambitious Mysorean plans for aggrandizement...
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Crucial behind Mysorean victory in the Second Anglo-Mysore war was catastrophically poor British diplomacy, which managed to see them in...
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Machiavelli insisted that “gold is not the sinews of war, but good soldiers.” Unfortunately for Machiavelli’s logic in India, when men...
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The brief decade of 1783-1792 was the swan song of the southern Indian textile producer. Sandwiched in between the bloody destruction of...
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Mysore’s army emerged victorious from the Second Anglo-Mysore War, riding high on the tide of victory in the Carnatic, where it had rode...
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When the young, still barely 32 years old, Tipu Sultan rose to power in Mysore following the death of his father at the end of 1782, he...
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Over the fall, naval activity fell off. Both took time to rest and refit, the French in particular needing it since not all of their...
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Chapter 1, The Battle of Porto Praya Suffren’s Shadow: A History of the Naval War in the Indian Ocean, 1777-1783 The Battle of Porto...
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In July 1780, the armies of Hyder Ali, the de-facto sultan of Mysore stormed into the Carnatic coastlands of Seatheast India, the...
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Suffren’s victory forced the British fleet to temporarily hole up in Madras and prevented any hope of lifting the blockade. Coote’s...
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Chapter 2: We Are Bound for Freedom's Light Emancipation and Land Reform in the last months of the war and at the start of the Military...