Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Pollilur in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Waged between Tipu Sultan, (also known as the Tiger of Mysore), and Col William Baille of the East India Company, the army of the East India Company was virtually wiped out, the first serious blow that the British had encountered in India
Provenance
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