Who were included in the ternary formed against Hyder Ali in the first Anglo-Mysore war?
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The Anglo–Mysore Wars were a series of wars fought in over the last three decades of the 18th century between the Kingdom of Mysore on the one hand, and the British East India Company (represented chiefly by the Madras Presidency), and Maratha Confederacy and the Nizam of Hyderabad on the other. Hyder Ali and his successor Tipu Sultan fought a war on four fronts with the British attacking from the west, south and east, while the Marathas and the Nizam's forces attacked from the north.[1] The fourth war resulted in the overthrow of the house of Hyder Ali and Tipu (who was killed in the final war, in 1799), and the dismantlement of Mysore to the benefit of the East India Company, which won and took control of much of India
The British then succeeded in detaching the nizam and the Marathas from Hyder and defeated him three times successively in 1781, at the battles of Porto Novo, Pollilur, and Sholinghur; Hyder lost more than 10,000 men at Porto Novo.