Complex sentence: Ali, and later his son Tipu Sultan, almost drove the British from southern India but was frustrated by weak French support, and the war ended "status quo ante bellum" with the 1784 Treaty of Mangalore.
Split into simpler sentences: Ali, and later his son Tipu Sultan, almost drove the British from southern India, but was frustrated by weak French support. This part of the war ended "status quo ante bellum" with the 1784 Treaty of Mangalore.