Battle of Sholinghur

Battle of Sholinghur
	Part of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
	; 1781 watercolor showing British Army encamped at Sholinghur
Date	27 September 1781
Location	Sholinghur, present-day Tamil Nadu, India
Result	Company victory
Belligerents
British East India Company	Sultanate of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Eyre Coote	Hyder Ali

The Battle of Sholinghur was fought on 27 September 1781 between forces of the Kingdom of Mysore led by Hyder Ali and British East India Company forces led by General Eyre Coote. The company forces were victorious.

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References[]

Vibart, H. M (1881). The military history of the Madras engineers and pioneers, from 1743 up to the present time, Volume 1

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