Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
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The siege of Seringapatam was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore led by Tipu Sultan who ruled after the death of hi
The Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultaun Henry Singleton, c. 1800
A Qajar Persian copy of a British painting of the assault
The Siege of Seringapatam by Joseph Mallord William Turner
The assault of Seringapatam
Kingdom of Mysore
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The Kingdom of Mysore was a geopolitical realm in southern India founded in around 1399 in the vicinity of the modern-day city of Mysuru and prevailed until 1950. The territorial boundaries and the fo
Siege of Seringapatam (1799)
…siege of Seringapatam (5 April – 4 May 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore led by Tipu Sultan who ruled after the death of his father. The British, with the allied Nizam Ali Khan, 2nd Nizam of Hyderabad and Maratha Empire…
Tipu's Tiger with the organ keyboard visible
Admiral Suffren meeting with ally Hyder Ali in 1783. J. B. Morret engraving, 1789
Tipu's flag at the entrance to the fort of Bangalore
A portrait of Tipu Sultan, made during the Third Anglo-Mysore War