In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, rulers of Malabar, Coorg, Bednur, Carnatic, and Travancore.

In this battle, the admiral of the Dutch, Eustachius De Lannoy, was captured ; later he was utilized to modernize the Travancore army by introducing better firearms and artillery.

Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy, who was captured as a prisoner of war in the famous Battle of Colachel was appointed as the Senior Admiral (" Valiya kappittan ") and he modernised the Travancore army by introducing firearms and artillery.

The Travancore army of six thousand first-time fighters from ‘ Kalaris ’ ( schools of martial arts ) was confronted with a war-hardened, fourteen thousand strong army of Tipu Sultan.

In the annals of the history of warfare, battle of Nedumkottah has a prominent place as just a small group of twenty determined Travancore soldiers beat back a well trained and highly motivated army of fourteen thousand warriors of Tipu.

A section of the Travancore army mutinied in 1805 against Velu Thampi Dalawa and he sought refuge with the British Resident and later used English East India Company troops to crush the mutiny.

The allied East India Company army and the Travancore soldiers camped in Pappanamcode, just outside Trivandrum.

Velu Thampi Dalawa now organised a guerrilla struggle against the Company, but committed suicide to avoid capture by the Travancore army.

This was crushed by the Travancore army and navy leading to hundreds of deaths.

Later they were defeated by the Travancore army of Dharma Raja ( successor of Marthanda Varma ) and their kingdom was annexed to Travancore ( the ruling king committed suicide ).

In a battle at Vallioor, Reddiapuram army defeated Travancore army in 14th Century.

In a information Board at the entrance of the Vallioor Murugan Temple it is stated that 14th century vallioor War-Reddiapuram army defeated Travancore Army at vallioor Battle.

The Travancore army was disbanded in 1808, ( some Nair battalions of the Raja were dismissed in 1809 following the Travancore War ) and its remnants became the Travancore Nair Brigade in 1818-1819.

Two former Travancore state army divisions, the 1st Travancore Nayar Infantry and the 2nd Travancore Nayar Infantry were converted in to 9th and 16th Battalions of Madras Regiment respectively after the independence.

In 1946, Communist dissent over C. P .' s policies erupted in the form of the Punnapra-Vayalar revolt which was crushed with a brutal hand by Travancore army and navy.

The Travancore army inflicted a crushing defeat upon the combined Kottarakara-Dutch armies and annexed the kingdom, forcing the Dutch to retreat to Cochin.

The arrival of the Raja's army from the north forced the Dutch to take up defensive positions in Kulachal, where they were attacked and defeated by the Travancore Nair Army.

The key element of the Raja's army was his personal army, known as the Travancore Nair Brigade or locally known as the Nair Pattalam.

The fort was rebuilt during the reign of Marthanda Varma, Venad King, during 1741-44 under the supervision of Eustachius De Lannoy, a Flemish naval commander of the Dutch East India Company, who later served as the Chief of the Travancore Army.

The battle began when a force of Dutch marines under the leadership of a Flemish commander, Captain Eustachius De Lannoy ( also spelt D ' lennoy ) were sent to Travancore to secure a trading post from the Raja.

Eustachius De Lannoy was pardoned on condition that he helped modernize the Travancore Army.

Under the Travancore Kingdom of Kerala, ( India ), lower caste women had to pay a tax for the right to cover their upper body.

Kingdom of Travancore (; ) was a former Hindu feudal kingdom ( till 1858 ) and Indian princely state that had been ruled by the Travancore Royal Family from the capital at Padmanabhapuram or Thiruvananthapuram.

During the reign of Dharma Raja, Marthanda Varma's successor, Tipu Sultan, the de facto ruler of Kingdom of Mysore and the son of Hyder Ali attacked Travancore as a part of the Mysorean invasion of Kerala ; this lead to the famous Third Anglo-Mysore War, as Travancore had already allied with the British to seek protection from the potent assault from Tippu.

Dharma Raja had earlier refused to hand over the Hindu political refugees from the Mysore occupation of Malabar, who had been given asylum in Travancore.

Following this development, the king of Travancore who till then had refused to take any open part in the civil war, turned against his Prime Minister.

After the mutiny of 1805 against Velu Thampi Dalawa, most of the Nair battalions of Travancore had been disbanded, and after Velu Thampi Dalawa's uprising, almost all of the remaining Travancore forces were also disbanded, with the East India Company undertaking to serve the king in cases of external and internal aggression.

The Maharajas of Travancore had been conditionally promoted to Kshatryahood with periodic performance of 16 mahādānams ( great gifts in charity ) such as Hiranya-garbhā, Hiranya-Kāmdhenu, Hiranyāswaratā, and Tulāpurushadānam in which each of which thousands of Brahmins had been given costly gifts apart from each getting a minimum of 1 kazhanch ( 78. 65 gms ) of gold.

The Nambudiri Brahmins had stipulated that Rajas of Travancore could retain their dignity of Sāmantan Nair permanently but the Samanta Kshatriyhood conferred on them by the yāgās and mahādanams would be valid only for 6 years and thus latter purchased kshatriyhood at a heavy recurring cost.

The family had a successor only after a very long gap due to this genocide by the Travancore forces.

SBI was the acquirer as its affiliate, the State Bank of Travancore, already had an extensive network in Kerala.

The states of Travancore and Cochin had queens regnant styled Maharani, generally the female forms applied only to sisters, spouses and widows, who could however act as regents.

His mother was the granddaughter of Raman Menon who had been the Dewan of Travancore between 1815 and 1817, serving Gowri Parvati Bayi.

Although management of the country was restored to the Vellatiri raja in 1792, it soon became evident that he was powerless to repress the trouble that quickly broke out between Mapillas ( favored by the Mysorean occupiers ) and nayars ( who sought to restore the ancien régime ), and already in 1793 management of the district had to be resumed as the chief and his family fled to Travancore.

* Travancore-Cochin state had the last Maharaja of Travancore, Sir Bala Rama Varma II ( b. 1912-d. 1991 ) as Rajpramukh from 1 Jul 1949-31 Oct 1956.

To make the Malankara Church accept him as their head, Col. Munroe had to get the rulers of Travancore and Cochin issue Royal proclamations ordering Christians to render obedience to Mar Dionysious.

The kingdom of Travancore had been a target of Tipu for acquisition or conquest since the end of the previous war.

Indirect attempts to take over the kingdom had failed in 1788, and Archibald Campbell, the Madras president at the time, had warned Tipu that an attack on Travancore would be treated as a declaration of war on the company.

In the meantime, Tipu had renewed his attack on Travancore, and successfully breached the Nedumkotta line.

Malayali people of Kerala had forced the women other than Brahmins and Kshatriya class to strip to waist in public until 1858 when the Kingdom of Travancore granted all women the right to cover their breasts in public.

Now Achyuta Deva Raya along with his general Salakaraju Tirumala went on a southern campaign to bring the chiefs of Travancore and Ummatur under control.

Famous LMS missionaries included Robert Morrison ( missionary ) ( 1782-1834 ) who went to China in 1807, John Abbs ( 1810-1888 ) who went to Travancore, India in 1837, the sinologist James Legge ( 1815-1897 ), and David Livingstone ( 1813 – 1873 ) who went to South Africa in 1840.