Battle of Shimoga

{{Short description|1791–92 conflict in the Third Anglo-Mysore War}}

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| conflict = Capture of Shimoga

| partof = the Third Anglo-Mysore War

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| date = 29 December 1791 – 3 January 1792

| place = Shimoga, Kingdom of Mysore

| result = Maratha-British victory

| combatant1 = {{flag|Maratha Confederacy}}
{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} East India Company

| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Mysore.svg}} Mysore

| commander1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg}} Parshuram Bhou
{{flagicon image|Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg}} John Little

| commander2 = {{flagicon image|Flag of Mysore.svg}} Reza Sahib {{POW}}

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The Capture of Shimoga, a town and fortress held by forces of the Kingdom of Mysore, occurred on 3 January 1792, after a preliminary battle with the attacking forces of the British East India Company and the Marathas, not far from the town on 29 December, had scattered much of its defending army. The defenders surrendered after the fort's walls were breached. The battle was part of a campaign during the Third Anglo-Mysore War by Maratha leader Purseram Bhow to recover Maratha territories taken by Hyder Ali in an earlier conflict between Mysore and the Marathas. By the end of the siege, Reza Sahib a leading Mysore commander, was among the captured.{{Cite book |last=Jaques |first=Tony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbLOEAAAQBAJ |title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes] |date=2006-11-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-02799-4 |pages=936 |language=en}}