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1799 CE · military conflict

Fall of Seringapatam and Death of Tipu Sultan

Company-led forces captured Seringapatam in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, ending Tipu Sultan's rule.

Sir David Wilkie's nineteenth-century painting representing the death of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam
Painted in 1839, four decades after the 1799 event. It is a later artistic representation, not eyewitness visual evidence. · Credit: Sir David Wilkie · License: Public domain

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Sources and further reading

  1. NCERT — From Trade to Territory

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