The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) took place between whom?
[A] Tipu Sultan and Lord Auckland
[B] Tipu Sultan and Lord Wellesley
[C] Tipu Sultan and Lord Amherst
[D] Tipu Sultan and Lord Cornwallis
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Correct Answer: B [Tipu Sultan and Lord Wellesley]
Notes:
The Governor General, Lord Wellesley asked Tipu Sultan to break his ties with French and enter into the Subsidiary Alliance but he refused to accept it. Thus, the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1799) started. The war ended with the death of Tipu Sultan, who was killed while fighting to save his capital Srirangapatnam.The British East India Company took indirect control of Mysore and restored the Wodeyar Dynasty on the throne of Mysore and a subsidiary alliance system was imposed.
