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Tipu Sultan of Mysore, southern India
unlike many Indian rulers right from the beginning, did not like
the British India company officials and their over interference in
the internal affairs of Indian kingdoms. To save his kingdom from
foreign as well as local military invasions, he developed a powerful
army with some innovations in the war weapons. When the British
targeted Tipu sultan they found it extremely difficult either to
subdue him or score a victory over him and this culminated in three
major wars against Tipu. In the final Mysore war at Srirangapatnam
Tipu fought tooth and nail against the mighty British East India's
army led by Lord Wellesley who was a well trained and equally
competent military man. His valiant and aggressive fight on the
battle field along with his well trained army was of no avail to beat the British army. In the war Tipu and his associates killed a record 4500 British soldiers and left 15 alive. At one point Wellesley thought of giving up and surrender was the only alternative on his mind. That point of time Tipu was hit by a bullet in the arm and the second one was fatal - in the temple. Finally Tipu, great warrior and tormentor of the British, as would have , fell down dead. For the victorious British, a big hurdle
had been removed and their vision of almost full control over India
was nearing fruition.
Following day after the death of Tipu on the
4th of May,1799 his body was buried near his father's tomb according
to Islamic funeral rites. This was done on the premises of palace
complex. In the middle of the poignant burial, a unique and strange
thing happened which caught the mourners unawares. There were several
British army men as well. A violent, strong storm struck from
nowhere and the burial ground became a scene of massive winds
accompanied by rain. The sky was clear and there was no no sign of
rain clouds. Richard Bayley of 12th Regiment of Madras Army wrote"
I' ve experienced hurricanes, typhoons and gales of wind at sea; bu
never in the whole course of my existence had I seen any thing
comparable to this desolating visitations.''
Probably this was the way mother Nature
had paid her last respect to this great, dedicated warrior who
fought for his mother land till the last drop of his blood.
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