Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Bangalore (Second Mysore War).

This place was besieged by the British under Lord Cornwallis, March 5, 1791, and notwithstanding numerous efforts to relieve it on the part of Tippu Sahib, it was taken by storm on the night of the 21st, Tippu's final attempt being beaten off by the reserve with heavy loss. The British casualties were few.