modern India · British

Battle of Porto Novo

Eyre Coote’s outnumbered Company army defeated Hyder Ali during the Second Anglo-Mysore War and checked Mysore’s advance in the Carnatic.

UPSC relevance

Relevant for sequencing the Second Anglo-Mysore War and comparing Pollilur with the Company recovery at Porto Novo.

The visual decisiveness bar on the explorer is an editorial study aid, not a troop-strength or casualty estimate.