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.

  • 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.

  • William of Orange and the Grand Alliance

    • The French conveniently ignored the Second Partition Treaty and claimed the entire Spanish inheritance.
    • The news that Louis XIV had accepted Charles II's will and that the Second Partition Treaty was dead was a personal blow to William III.
    • Yet to William III France's growing strength made war inevitable.
    • In 1701, it went into a second phase.
    • The Dutch, Austrians, and German states fought on to strengthen their own negotiating position, but defeated by Marshal Villars they were soon compelled to accept Anglo-French mediation.

  • The Question of Spanish Succession

    • In an attempt to avoid war, Louis signed the Treaty of the Hague with William III of England in 1698.
    • On his deathbed in 1700, Charles II unexpectedly offered the entire empire to the Dauphin's second son Philip, Duke of Anjou, provided it remained undivided.
    • The Dutch, Austrians, and German states fought on to strengthen their own negotiating position, but defeated by Marshal Villars they were soon compelled to accept Anglo-French mediation.
    • Europe before the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, (c. 1700), source: Wikipedia.
    • Europe after the War of the Spanish Succession (1714), source: Wikipedia.

  • The English Protectorate

    • The Commonwealth was the period when England, later along with Ireland and Scotland, was ruled as a republic following the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I (1649).
    • The first was "healing and settling" the nation after the chaos of the civil wars and the regicide. 
    • His second objective was spiritual and moral reform.
    • The First Anglo-Dutch War, which had broken out in 1652, against the Dutch Republic, was eventually won in 1654.
    • By May 1652, Cromwell's Parliamentarian army had defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country—bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars (or Eleven Years' War).

  • The Triumphs of Tsarina Elizabeth I

    • Her first task after this was to address the war with Sweden.
    • He represented the anti-Franco-Prussian portion of Elizabeth's council and his object was to bring about an Anglo-Austro-Russian alliance.
    • The critical event of Elizabeth's later years was the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).
    • However, in 1762,  a year before the war formally ended, Elizabeth died.
    • This turn of events has become known as "the Second Miracle of the House of Brandenburg."

  • Philip II and the Spanish Armada

    • Philip's second wife was his first cousin once removed, Queen Mary I of England.
    • Philip's commitment to restore Catholicism in the Protestant regions of Europe resulted also in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
    • The war was punctuated by widely separated battles.
    • He directly intervened in the final phases of the wars (1589–1598). 
    • The war was only drawn to an official close with the Peace of Vervins in May 1598.