Siege of Adoni
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| Siege of Adoni | |||||||||
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| Part of the Maratha-Mysore wars | |||||||||
 Battle of Adoni depicted in the Tuzuk-i-Asafia c.1793 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Maratha Confederacy Hyderabad |
 Mysore | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Raghunath Rao Hari Pant Arastu Jah |
Tipu Sultan | ||||||||
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20,000 Marathas[1] 25,000 Nizam forces[1] | ~unknown~ | ||||||||
The siege of Adoni was a military conflict that occurred between the forces of Tipu Sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore and the Maratha Confederacy allied with the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1786.
Tipu Sultan defeated the combined forces of Maratha and Hyderabad and conquered Adoni.
