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The allies brought the garrison and its families out, and Tipu took the empty fort and annexed Adoni.
01The Nizam’s frontier post
Adoni sits on a cluster of granite hills, once a Vijayanagara stronghold and later held for Bijapur and the Mughals. By 1786 it belonged to the Nizam. Mahabat Jang, the governor, sent urgent letters to Hyderabad and Pune when Tipu marched on it. His envoy offered money to turn Tipu back, and Tipu refused. A relief army of the Peshwa’s horse under Haripant Phadke and the Nizam’s troops met on the march and came down on Adoni.
02Relief without a fight
The relief army reached the fort but did not seek a decisive battle with Tipu, whose main force lay close by. Instead the allies took Mahabat Jang, his men and the families of the garrison out of the fort and withdrew north. Tipu marched in. The guns and stores left behind fell to him, and Adoni was joined to Mysore. It was a cheap victory, and it cost the Nizam his last strong place south of the river.
Adoni cost the Nizam his strongest post south of the Tungabhadra and showed how little the allies of 1786 would risk against Tipu.
