modern India · British

Battle of Sholinghur

Eyre Coote defeated Hyder Ali after Porto Novo during the Second Anglo-Mysore War, though the wider war continued until 1784.

UPSC relevance

Relevant for sequencing the Second Anglo-Mysore War and the campaigns of Hyder Ali.

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