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The Battle of Seringapatam
Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On May 4, 1799 AD, the British imposed Battle of Seringapatam ended with the martyrdom of the Muslim ruler of Mysore in southern India, Fath Ali Khan Tipu Sultan. The British colonialists had started this 4th Mysore in violation of an earlier treaty for peace, since they feared Tipu Sultan's growing ties with Napoleon Bonaparte of France, as well as his correspondence with the Ottoman Empire and Karim Khan Zand the ruler of Iran
Karim Khan dispatched a force of 6,000 Iranians to assist Tipu, but because of the sea journey these contingent arrived after the fall of Seringapatnam. Tipu was enlightened ruler and patronized Arabic and Persian literature.
He also experimented with the manufacture of artillery rockets, which greatly alarmed the British. Among the reliable history books of the Muslim Dynasty of Mysore founded by Tipu's father, Hyder Ali Khan, is “Nishan-e Haideri”, and “Tadhkirat-al-Belaad wa’l-Hukkaam” written by the migrant Iranian scholar to his court, Hussain Ali Khan Kirmani.
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