The Siege of Bednore (1783) involved a 17-day siege by Tipu Sultan’s forces against a British garrison in the fort. After the siege, the British negotiated capitulation terms, including the…
This narrative reconstructs the dramatic siege of the fort of Bednore (also called Ikkeri or Nagar) in 1783 during the Second Anglo‑Mysore War. Drawing on Tipu Sultan’s Persian memoirs and on…