Second Anglo-Mysore War

(noun)

A 1780–1784 conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company. At the time, Mysore was a key French ally in India, and the Franco–British war sparked Anglo–Mysorean hostilities in India. The great majority of soldiers on the company side were raised, trained, paid and commanded by the company, not the British government.

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  • The American Revolution

    • The American theater became only one front in Britain's war.
    • In October 1781, the British surrendered their second invading army of the war, under a siege by the combined French and Continental armies under Washington.
    • The capture of the French-controlled port of Mahé on India's west coast motivated Mysore's ruler, Hyder Ali  to start the Second Anglo-Mysore War in 1780.
    • The French support was weak, however, and the status quo ante bellum ("the state existing before the war") 1784 Treaty of Mangalore ended the war.
    • France's trading posts in India were returned after the war.

  • The Anglo-Saxons

    • The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.
    • The history of the Anglo-Saxons is the history of a cultural identity.
    • In the second half of the 6th century, four structures contributed to the development of Anglo-Saxon society: the position and freedoms of the ceorl (peasants), the smaller tribal areas coalescing into larger kingdoms, the elite developing from warriors to kings, and Irish monasticism developing under Finnian.
    • The second element of Alfred's society is fighting men.
    • The subject of war and the Anglo-Saxons is a curiously neglected one; however, it is an important element of their society.

  • Troubled Neighbors

    • The Anglo-Dutch Wars, which took place between 1652 and 1784, were fought for control over trade routes in the colonies.
    • The Anglo–Dutch Wars, also known as the Dutch Trade Wars, were fought in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes.
    • The second and third Anglo-Dutch wars confirmed the Dutch Republic's position as the leading maritime state of the 17th century.
    • During the second war, English spoils won in battle included the Dutch colony of New Netherland (present-day New York).
    • After the Third Anglo-Dutch War ended and the two sides made peace, they agreed to return it to the English.

  • Freedom in New Netherland

    • The surrender of Fort Amsterdam to England in 1664 was formalized in 1667, contributing to the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
    • Within six years the two empires were once again at war, and the Dutch recaptured New Netherland with a fleet of 21 ships, then the largest ever seen in North America.
    • In 1673, the Dutch re-took the area but the next year, finding itself financially bankrupt, the republic relinquished New Netherland under the Second Treaty of Westminster in November, 1674, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
    • Analyze the Anglo-Dutch wars and the transfer of New Amsterdam to the British

  • Empires in Conflict

    • The Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1674) were a series of conflicts fought largely at sea over Britain's power to restrict trade to the colonies.
    • The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
    • King William's War (1689–97), also known as the Nine Years War and the War of the League of Augsburg, was a phase of the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
    • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent, and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
    • This painting by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest (c. 1667) depicts a major battle (and Dutch victory) during the Second Anglo–Dutch War.

  • A Grinding War Against Iran

    • The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the Allied invasion of Iran during World War II by Soviet and British armed forces.
    • The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the Allied invasion of Iran during World War II by Soviet and British armed forces.
    • The British feared that the Abadan Oil Refinery, owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, might fall into German hands.
    • The refinery produced eight million tons of oil in 1940—a crucial part of the Allied war effort.
    • The second of the notes was recognised by the prime minister Ali Mansur as a disguised ultimatum.

  • European Wars in the Colonies

    • The Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652–1674) were a series of conflicts fought largely at sea over Britain's power to restrict trade to the colonies.
    • The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
    • Britain and France fought four wars that became known as the French and Indian Wars—followed in 1778 with another war when France joined the Americans in the American Revolution.
    • King William's War (1689–1697), also known as the "Nine Years War" and the "War of the League of Augsburg," was a phase in the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
    • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.

  • The Diplomatic Revolution

    • The War of the Austrian Succession had seen the belligerents aligned on a time-honored basis.
    • Even so, France concluded a defensive alliance with Prussia in 1747 and the maintenance of the Anglo-Austrian alignment after 1748 was deemed essential by some British politicians.
    • This change in European alliances was a prelude to the Seven Years' War.
    • One year after the signing of the First Treaty of Versailles, France and Austria signed a new offensive alliance, the Second Treaty of Versailles (1757).
    • In 1758, the Anglo-Prussian Convention between Great Britain and the Kingdom of Prussia formalized the alliance between the two powers.

  • Events of the War

    • The Anglo-Prussian alliance was joined by smaller German states (especially Hanover, which remained in a personal union with Britain).
    • This turn of events has become known as "the Second Miracle of the House of Brandenburg."
    • Britain declared war against Spain and Portugal followed by joining the war on Britain's side.
    • Eventually the Anglo-Portuguese army chased the greatly reduced Franco-Spanish army back to Spain, recovering almost all the lost towns.
    • The Seven Years' War is sometimes considered the first true world war.

  • The Hundred Years' War

    • Historians commonly divide the war into three phases separated by truces: 1) the Edwardian Era War (1337–1360); 2) the Caroline War (1369–1389); and 3) the Lancastrian War (1415–1453), which saw the slow decline of English fortunes after the appearance of Joan of Arc in 1429.
    • The Edwardian War was the first series of hostilities of the Hundred Years' War.
    • This peace lasted nine years, until a second phase of hostilities known as the Caroline War began.
    • The Caroline War was named after Charles V of France, who resumed the war after the Treaty of Brétigny.
    • The Lancastrian War was the third phase of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War.