<P> This was the final conflict of the four Anglo -- Mysore Wars . The British captured the capital of Mysore . The ruler Tipu Sultan was killed in the battle . Britain took indirect control of Mysore , restoring the Wodeyar Dynasty to the Mysore throne ( with a British commissioner to advise him on all issues ) . Tipu Sultan 's young heir , Fateh Ali , was sent into exile . The Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India and ceded Coimbatore , Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada to the British . </P>
<P> This was the final conflict of the four Anglo -- Mysore Wars . The British captured the capital of Mysore . The ruler Tipu Sultan was killed in the battle . Britain took indirect control of Mysore , restoring the Wodeyar Dynasty to the Mysore throne ( with a British commissioner to advise him on all issues ) . Tipu Sultan 's young heir , Fateh Ali , was sent into exile . The Kingdom of Mysore became a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India and ceded Coimbatore , Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada to the British . </P>
who was defeated and killed in the fourth mysore war at srirangapatna
who was defeated and killed in the fourth mysore war at srirangapatna
Tipu Sultan
Tipu Sultan