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

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Savandroog (Second Mysore War).

Siege was laid to this place December 10, 1791, by a column of Lord Cornwallis' army, about 4,000 strong[strong]. It was defended by a strong garrison of Mysoris, and was considered impregnable, but a practicable breach having been effected, it was taken by storm eleven days later, the garrison offering little resistance. The assailants did not lose a man.