Tipu Sultan, taken from Alexander ... as an enlightened ruler in India. During the late eighteenth century he bitterly and effectively opposed British rule in southern India, posing a grave ...

A map from 1758 by Jacques ... Several maps show the British obsession with Tipu Sultan. In 1792, in the third Anglo Mysore war, the Governor-General of India Charles Cornwallis defeated him ...

This is the seal of Sultan Fateh Ali Tipu ... Kent probably since the early 1800s. Tipu ruled the Kingdom of Mysore, a large part of southern India, suceeding his father, Hyder Ali (1722-1782).