Siege of Darwar

Siege of Darwar
Part of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
Date 18 September 1790 – 3 April 1791 Location Darwar, Kingdom of Mysore Result British-Maratha victory
Belligerents
Maratha Empire British East India Company	Kingdom of Mysore
Commanders and leaders
Parushram Bhau Patwardhan John Little Charles Frederick John Sartorius	Badr ul-Zaman Khan Sahib[1]

The Siege of Darwar was a twenty-nine-week siege of the fort at Darwar in 1790 and 1791, then near the frontier between the Kingdom of Mysore and the Maratha Empire. The Marathas, assisted by forces of the British East India Company, began the siege on 18 September 1790; the Mysorean garrison surrendered on 3 April 1791.

References[]

• Moor, Edward (1794). A narrative of the operations of captain Little's detachment, and of the Mahratta army (a detailed British account of the siege)
• Mill, James. A history of British India, Volume 5
• Duff, James Grant. A history of the Mahrattas, Volume 2

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