"The Siege of Tellicherry was a military embargo that happened in Thalassery (North Malabar). The Commander in Chief of the Mysore Calicut Province, Sirdar Ali, took siege of the British Military Barrack of Thalassery for 18 months. They British and the local administrators were blockaded within Thalassery by land as well as by sea. It was during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.The siege continued till reinforcement from Bombay led Major Abington attacked the Mysore army defeated them."@en . "*Princely state of Kottayam" . "Sultanate of Mysore" . "British East India Company," . "*Chirakkal" . "*Kadathanad" . . . . "Siege of Tellicherry(Thalassery),Kerala"@en . . "1779-12-30Z"^^ . "British victory" . .