Hyder Ali (c. 1720 to 7 December 1782) was the sultan and de facto ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore in southern India. He rose through military service, first among the sepoys of the Nizam of Hyderabad's forces and then in the army of Mysore, and by 1759 he commanded the whole Mysorean army. As Dalavayi, the commander-in-chief, under the titular king Krishnaraja Wodeyar II, he came to dominate the court and by 1761 governed as chief minister. He allied with the French and used French workmen to raise his artillery and arsenal. He was Mysore's principal military leader against the East India Company in the First and Second Anglo-Mysore wars; the first began in August 1767 when a combined Mysore and Hyderabad army under his command attacked a company outpost at Changama. He left his son Tipu Sultan an extensive kingdom.
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was the sultan and de facto ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore in southern India
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was the sultan and de facto ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore in southern India
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was the sultan and de facto ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore in southern India
Fought In: First Anglo-Mysore War, First Anglo-Mysore War
This diplomatic manoeuvring resulted in the start of the First Anglo-Mysore War in August 1767 when a company outpost at Changama was attacked by a combined Mysore-Hyderabad army under Hyder Ali's command.
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