5098 x 3241 px | 43,2 x 27,4 cm | 17 x 10,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1880
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Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Original illustration from British Battles on Land and Sea by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company circa 1880. Info from wiki: After Horatio Nelson had defeated François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers at the Battle of the Nile in Egypt in 1798, three armies, one from Bombay, and two British (one of which included Arthur Wellesley), marched into Mysore in 1799 and besieged the capital Srirangapatna in the Fourth Mysore War.[50] The British broke through the city walls, French Military advisers advised Tipu Sultan[citation needed] to escape from secret passages and live to fight another day but to their astonishment Tipu replied, "Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep".[51] Tipu Sultan died defending his capital on 4 May. When the fallen Tipu was identified, Wellesley felt his pulse and confirmed that he was dead.
