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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Ponani (First Mysore War).

Fought November 19, 1780, when a force of British and native troops, about 2,500 strong, under Colonel Macleod, entrenched near Ponani, were attacked before daybreak by a strong force of Mysoris, under Tippu Sahib. The Mysoris were repulsed at the point of the bayonet, with a loss of 1,100. The British loss was 87 only.