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The success of British arms brought her old enemy Atlas pendant , ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a key French ally, to the fore. Joined by Phadnis and the Nizam ofHyderabad in the Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780 to 1784), Charm pendant eighty thousand-man army swept across southern India during the summer of 1780. As American patriots drank toasts to Haider and named their vessels after their Indian ally, his armies captured the fortress at Arcot on 3 November 1781 and defeated Colonel Braithvvaite at Annagudi near Tanjore on 18 February 1782 as well. Tiffany Cushion Triple drop pendant initial request in 1780 by the hard-pressed East India Company to the Crown for troops was turned down: though Sir Henry Clinton's foray into the Carolinas and Georgia in 1778 had brought some initial successes, culminating in the capture of Charleston in 1780, the administration of Lord North had no forces to spare for deployment to India. By 1781, the Atlas cube pendant was fighting for its survival and, with the British presence in India at stake, King George granted the Company permission to raise two regiments of infantry, two thousand men, in his Hanoverian possessions. As Elector of Hanover, George could grant this permission without recourse to the House of Commons, while the raising of troops in its own right was well within the powers of the Company even after the Act of 1773, which, while establishing ultimate control of the Crown over the Company still allowed it to act as a sovereign power on behalf of the Crown.