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TIPPOG SAHIB (1753—1799)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1005 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAHIB (1753—1799) , See also:sultan of See also:Mysore, son of Hyder See also:Ali (q.v.), was See also:born in 1753. He was instructed in military See also:tactics by See also:French See also:officers in the employment of his See also:father. In 1767 in the invasion of the Carnatic he commanded a See also:corps of See also:cavalry, and he distinguished himself in the Mahratta See also:War of 1775-79. On the outbreak of the first Mysore War in 178o he was put at the See also:head of a large See also:body of troops, and defeated Brathwaite on the See also:banks of the Coleroon in See also:February 1782. He succeeded his father in See also:December 1782, and in 1784 concluded See also:peace with the See also:British, and assumed the See also:title of sultan. In 1787—88 he subjugated the Nairs of See also:Malabar, and in 1789 provoked British invasion by ravaging the territories of the See also:raja of See also:Travancore. When the British entered Mysore in 1790, he retaliated by a See also:counter-invasion, but was compelled by See also:Cornwallis's victory near See also:Seringapatam to cede See also:half his dominions (See also:March 16, 1792). The British having deemed it necessary to renew hostilities in March 1799, he was shut up in Seringapatam and finally killed during the See also:storm (May 4, 1799). Tippoo was of cruel disposition, and inferior in military talents to his father. See L. B. See also:Bowring, Haidar All and Tipu Sultan (" Rulers of See also:India See also:series," 1893).

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