• On 16 September reinforcements arrived from Palayamkottai. As the broken walls appeared vulnerable, the garrison evacuated and reached Kadalgudi.
• In a clash at Kalarpatti, Kattabomman's minister Sivasubramonia Pillai was taken prisoner
• The British forces followed up their victory with the reduction of Nagalapuram and other strongholds of the defiant chiefs to submission.
• On the appearance of the army the western Palayakkarars too surrendered.

• Velu Nachiyar employed her intelligence gathering agents to discover where the British stored their ammunition.
• One of her followers Kuyili, doused herself in oil, set herself alight, and walked into the storehouse.
• She also employed another agent, her adopted daughter Udaiyaal, to detonate a British arsenal, blowing herself up along with the barracks.
• Velu Nachiyar formed a woman's army

• The Mysore king Chamaraj IX died in 1796. Tipu resolved not to observe the formality of appointing a king.
• Synchronizing with this resolve came the announcement of the French colonial governor of Mauritius General Malartic that, after obtaining French help, he would declare war on the English.
• In July 1798 Tipu's correspondence with the French Directory and later with Napoleon and his evasiveness in his correspondence with Wellesley led to his declaration of war against Tipu

• Cornwallis wanted to deal with Tipu in a revengeful manner. The two great southern powers, the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maratha confederacy, supported the British as its allies.
• The Nizam of Hyderabad supplied resources and even troops for the British. The Marathas, who had signed the Treaty of Salbai with the English after the First Anglo-Maratha war in 1782, also joined the British.
• The British position was thus greatly strengthened.

• The death of Haider due to cancer in 1782, the signing of Treaty of Paris (1783) at the end of American War of independence, and the protracted siege of Mangalore enabled the English to be aggressive against Tipu.
• Karur and Dindigul were captured by Colonel Lang, Colonel Fullerton seized Palghat and Coimbatore but this advance on Srirangapatnam was pre-empted by Tipu with his proposal for peace