The 98th Regiment of Foot (1780–1785) was a short-lived infantry regiment in the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

which was raised in England in 1780 as a infantry corps for service in India. En route to India by sea the regiment was involved in the indecisive naval

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in the

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, where they had anchored to take on water. After arriving in India in 1781 the regiment took part in the

Second Mysore war The Second Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company from 1780 to 1784. At the time, Mysore was a key French ally in India, and the conflict between Britain against the French and Dutch in ...

against the Kingdom of Mysore, but was obliged to surrender to the forces of

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at the

siege of Bednore The siege of Bednore was a battle of the Second Anglo-Mysore War. The British had captured Bednore (modern day Nagara) and other strongholds in the Malabar coast from Mysore in early 1783, while the Mysore leader, Tipu Sultan, was leading his arm ...

and were interned until the Treaty of Mangalore in 1784. Following its release the regiment sailed home to England and were disbanded in 1785. The Colonel-Commandant of the Regiment throughout its short life was Colonel William Fullarton, who was later made colonel of the 101st Foot.

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