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Tipu, Sultan ruler of Mysore, India...
Tipu, Sultan ruler of Mysore, India...
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June 26, 1792
THE LONDON CHRONICLE, London, England, June 26, 1792
* Tippu, Tipoo, Tippoo : Ruler of Mysore, India
* Tipu is defeated
Page 3 of this genuine newspaper contains a nice report, taken from the Bombay Gazette, headed: "Grand Army. Camp--The Island of Seringapatam. Defeat of Tippoo and His Army".
Near the beginning of the report is: "Official dispatches were yesterday...received...which convey the glorious intelligence of a most signal & complete victory gained by Earl Cornwallis over the whole of Tippoo's army..." with more, including a portion of a letter signed by Lt. General John Morris noting the specifics (see photos).
This report takes almost an entire page and includes other accounts. See the photos for the full text.
This newspaper is complete in 8 pages, measures 8 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches and is in very nice, clean condition.
A very significant issue in this history of India, and in the life of the sultan who was considered one of the bravest & noblest kings ever in the history of South India. He sacrificed his life for his country.
wikipedia notes: Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli – May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Indian Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 (the time of his father's death) until his own demise in 1799. He was the first son of Haidar Ali by his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-nissa.
Tipu Sultan was a learned man and an able soldier. He was reputed to be a good poet. He was a devout Muslim. The majority of his subjects were Hindus and they were his staunch loyalists for he was a benevolent ruler. At the request of the French, he built a church, the first in Mysore. In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British both Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali did not hesitate to use their French trained army against the Maharattas, Sira, Malabar, Coorg and Bednur. He was proficient in the languages he spoke [1]. He helped his father Haidar Ali defeat the British in the Second Mysore War, and negotiated the Treaty of Mangalore with them. However, he was defeated in the Third Anglo-Mysore War and in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War by the combined forces of the English East India Company, the Nizam of Hyderabad, the Mahratta Confederacy, and to a lesser extent, Travancore. Tipu Sultan died defending his capital Srirangapattana, on May 4, 1799.
Sir Walter Scott, commenting on the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, wrote:
"Although I never supposed that he [Napoleon] possessed, allowing for some difference of education, the liberality of conduct and political views which were sometimes exhibited by old Haidar Ally, yet I did think he [Napoleon] might have shown the same resolved and dogged spirit of resolution which induced Tippoo Saib to die manfully upon the breach of his capital city with his sabre clenched in his hand."
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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