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  • Most attractive of all, the occupation of Egypt could offer an opportunity of opening closer relations with certain anti-British elements in India, most notably Tippoo Sahib, Sultan of Mysore.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Most attractive of all, the occupation of Egypt could offer an opportunity of opening closer relations with certain anti-British elements in India, most notably Tippoo Sahib, Sultan of Mysore.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • It is unlikely that the possibility of an advance on India was ever included in these calculations, despite the fact that Bonaparte wrote to Tippoo Sahib about this time promising direct assistance.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • It is unlikely that the possibility of an advance on India was ever included in these calculations, despite the fact that Bonaparte wrote to Tippoo Sahib about this time promising direct assistance.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • It is fully merited, not so much for the defeat of Tippoo Sahib and conquest of Mysore, as for continuing the policy of Clive and sternly preventing the natives of India from being ground down by the greed and cruelty of English residents.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

  • Tippoo Sahib had come, the 74th was the first to enter the tyrant's last stronghold, but it was later, at the battle of Assaye that they earned a fame which finds its echo to-day in the old badge of the

    The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

  • While nominally in control of the land, the English possessions actually included only the narrow strip running along the various sea coasts; the interior being overrun by unruly tribes of Sepoys under Tippoo Sahib.

    Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers 1917

  • Tippoo Sahib, with eight thousand of his men, fell in the assault, but the victor spared the lives of his sons and forbade a general sack of the city.

    Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt Henry John Newbolt 1900

  • {232} Tippoo Sahib, with eight thousand of his men, fell in the assault, but the victor spared the lives of his sons, and forbade a general sack of the city.

    Poems: New and Old Henry John Newbolt 1900

  • Cairo he wrote to the Imam of Muscat, assuring him of his friendship and begging him to forward to Tippoo Sahib a letter offering alliance and deliverance from "the iron yoke of England," and stating that the

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

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