Tipu Sultan, SHERE MYSORE

The famous historian Colonel Mark Wilkes writes that Tipu Sultan was younger than his father Haider Ali. They were black. The eyes were big. He looked normal and wore light clothes and asked his roommates to do the same. They were mostly seen riding horses. He considered horse riding to be a great artist and he was also skilled in it. He really disliked travelling in a dolly.
A glimpse of Tipu Sultan's personality can also be found in a book kept in the British Library, An Account of Tipu Sultan's Court, the details of which were given by his secretary Muhammad Qasim to an English historian after his death. It says that 'Tipu was of medium height, his forehead was wide. He had grey eyes, a high nose and a thin waist. His moustache was short and his beard was perfectly clean
Tipu Sultan, bigoted jihadi or tolerant ruler?
Another historian, Lashington, writes in his book Life of Harris: "Although the hole was not very large, George Harris decided to send his troops inside the fort through it." In fact, they had no choice. His army was hungry. Harris later admitted to Captain Malcolm that the British guard at my tent had become so weak that he would have fallen if he had been pushed. On the night of May 3, about 5,000 soldiers, including about 3,000 British, hid in the trenches so that Tipu's army could find out about their activities. As the time for the attack approached, Mir Sadiq, the man who had betrayed Tipu Sultan, called back the soldiers under the pretext of paying them. Another historian, Mir Hussain Ali Khan Kirmani, in his book, History of Tipu Sultan, quotes Col. Mark Wilkes as saying, "Nadeem, a Tipu commander raised the issue of salaries." So the soldiers stationed near the hole in the wall followed him. At that moment, the British attacked from behind. Meanwhile, Saeed Ghaffar, a very loyal commander of Tipu, was killed by British artillery. Kirmani writes that as soon as Ghaffar died, the treacherous soldiers from the fort started waving the white handkerchief of the British. It was decided that when this was done, the British army would attack the fort. As soon as the signal was received, the British army started advancing towards the river bank which was only a hundred yards away. The river was only 280 yards wide and had water up to the ankles and up to the waist. Major Alexander Allen writes in his book 'An Account of the Campaign in Mysore' that 'although the advancing British army could easily have been targeted by artillery from the fort, They managed to enter through the hole in the fort wall and hoisted the British flag.
Tipu's army
After bathing, Tipu distributed money among the poor
He gave an elephant, a sack of sesame seeds and two hundred rupees to a priest of Chenapatna. Tipu gave the other Brahmins a black goat, a garment made of black cloth and ninety rupees, as well as a vessel full of oil. Earlier, he saw his shadow in the oil in an iron pot. His astrologer had said that doing so would avert the trouble that would come upon him.
They returned to the palace and had dinner. He had just started eating when he was greeted by his commander Saeed Ghaffar News of the death of Ghaffar was leading an army guarding the western end of the fort.
Lt. Col. Alexander Bateson writes in his book A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tipu Sultan:
He washed his hands and mounted his horse and went out to the place where the hole in the wall was. But even before their arrival, the British had hoisted their flag there and started moving towards other parts of the fort.
Tipu was shot and the horse was killed
"In this battle, Tipu fought most of his battles on foot, like ordinary soldiers," Bateson writes. But when the courage of their soldiers began to wane, they mounted their horses and tried to encourage them.
The British did not know that Tipu Sultan was dead. They went inside the palace to look for them. It turned out that Tipu was not there. A Tipu general took them to the spot where Tipu had fallen. There were corpses and wounded soldiers lying around.
In the light of the torch, Tipu Sultan's dolly appeared.
Below him, Tipu's bodyguard Raja Khan was lying injured. He pointed to where Tipu had fallen. Major Allen later wrote, "When Tipu's body was brought before us, his eyes were open. His body was so hot that for a moment Colonel Wellesley and I felt as if he were not alive. But when we saw their pulse and laid our hands on our hearts, our doubts vanished. He had three wounds on his body and one on his forehead. A bullet entered his right ear and sank into his left cheek. He was dressed in the finest white linen cloth with a silk knot wrapped around his waist. She did not have a turban on her head and looked as if she had fallen during the war. There was no jewellery on the body except for one arm. The bracelet was actually a silver talisman with something written in Arabic and Persian.
Buried next to Haider Ali's grave
The next evening, Tipu Sultan's body left the palace. His body was carried by his personal staff. He was accompanied by four British companies.
according to documents in the UK's National Library of Scotland, the Journal of the War with Tipu states that "Prince Abdul Khaliq was walking right behind his funeral."
Sword of Tipu Sultan
"After the defeat of Tipu, the whole kingdom of the East fell at our feet," wrote Pat Abir, a British journalist, in his book Rise and Progress of British Power in India.

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