Abercromby was now approaching from the Malabar coast, and Lord Cornwallis was preparing for the final advance on Tippoo Sultan's famed stronghold.
In January, 1792, Cornwallis, apprised that Abercromby, with the Bombay division, was within striking distance, commenced his advance on Seringapatam. His force consisted of the 19th Light Dragoons, two regiments of Madras cavalry, and the Governor-General's Bodyguard, which he had brought down from Calcutta, the 36th (Worcester), 52nd (Oxford Light Infantry), 72nd (Seaforths), 74th (Highland Light Infantry), 76th (West Riding), 1st Madras Europeans (Royal Dublin Fusiliers), and sixteen battalions of sepoys, with forty-six field and forty siege guns.
Abercromby's force comprised the 73rd (Royal Highlanders), 75th (Gordons), 77th (Middlesex), 1st Bombay Europeans (2nd Battalion of the Dublins), and eight battalions of sepoys, with twenty field and sixteen siege guns, giving a total of about 9,000 British and 22,000 native troops.
On February 7 Seringapatam was carried by assault, our casualties numbering about 535 of all ranks, and our trophies amounting to eighty guns. On March 19 Tippoo Sultan signed a definitive treaty of peace, ceding to England Malabar and Coorg on the west, Baramahal and Dindigul on the Carnatic frontier, besides restoring to the Nizam the territories wrested from Hyderabad by Hyder Ali.
The distribution of prize-money afforded Lord Cornwallis and General Meadows, the second in command, an opportunity of giving an example of noble generosity, these two commanders placing their shares, amounting to £47,000 and £15,000, into the common fund. The following were the shares for each rank: Colonels, £1,160; Lieutenant-Colonels, £958; Majors, £734; Captains, £308; Lieutenants, £205; Ensigns, £159; sergeants, £29; and privates, £14 10s. In the native army Subadars received 275 rupees; Jemidars, 132 rupees; havildars, 110 rupees; and sepoys, 51 rupees.
CASUALTIES AT THE SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF SERINGAPATAM, 1792.
+--------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +--------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |19th Hussars | - | - | - | - | |Royal Artillery | 1 | 9 | 9 | 20 | |36th Worcesters | 2 | 3 | 6 | 33 | |52nd Oxfd. L.I. | 1 | 5 | 9 | 25 | |71st Highl. L.I. | 2 | 1 | 25 | 54 | |72nd Seaforth Highlanders | 1 | 4 | 15 | 43 | |73rd R. Highlanders | - | - | - | 3 | |74th Highl. L.I. | - | 2 | 2 | 18 | |75th Gordon Highlanders | - | - | 3 | 12 | |76th W. Riding Regiment | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |Royal Dublin Fusiliers | - | 1 | 2 | 32 | |61st P.W.O. Pioneers | 0 | 1 | 5 | 18 | |62nd Punjabis | - | - | 1 | 3 | |66th Punjabis | - | 1 | 9 | 14 | |76th Punjabis | - | - | 3 | 12 | |79th Carnatic I. | - | 2 | 5 | 9 | |80th Carnatic I. | 1 | 2 | 6 | 25 | +--------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+