The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India during which the Mysore State fought against the East India Company, Maratha Empire and the Hyderabad State in 1798–99.
The Storming of Seringapatam by Giovanni Vendramini, 1802
The Last Effort of Tippoo Saib at Seringapatam by B. Clayton, 1840
The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun by Henry Singleton, c. 1800
Finding of the Body of Tippoo Sultaun by Samuel William Reynolds, 1800
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was a British Army officer and statesman. A leading figure in early-19th-century British politics, Wellesley served as Prime Minister of the Uni
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
…to isolate Tipu Sultan diplomatically. Three armies, one from Bombay and two British (one of which contained a division that was commanded by Colonel Arthur Wellesley, the future 1st Duke of Wellington), marched into Mysore in 1799 and besieged the capital, Srirangapatnam, after some engagements with Tipu. On 6 March…
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1815–1816
Wellesley spent much of his early childhood at his family's ancestral home, Dangan Castle in County Meath, Ireland (engraving, 1842).
Beginning in 1787, Wellesley served at Dublin Castle (pictured) as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland
Wellesley as Lieutenant Colonel, aged c. 26, in the 33rd Regiment. Portrait of Arthur Wellesley by John Hoppner, 1795.