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Title: An empire story; stories of India and the greater colonies told to children
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth), 1867-1941
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Publisher: New York, F.A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ringapatam. Now Tippoo asked for peace. * Half your land andtwo million pounds, were Lord Wellesleys terms. Beaten though he was, these terms were too hard forTippoo. * Better, he cried, * to die like a soldier than tolive a pensioned Nawab. For a month the siege of Seringapatam lasted. Foodwas growing scarce in the British camp, when at last thetown was stormed and taken. The defenders fought bravely. Among them mightbe seen the short, stout figure of Tippoo clad in a dress ofwhite and crimson. But at last, wounded in four places,he fell dead. Still his soldiers fought on, and when atlast Seringapatam was taken, and the British flag floatedupon the walls, his body was found buried beneath thoseof his followers. Tippoo, being dead, and his capital taken, the whole ofhis land, called Mysore, fell into the hands of the British.Lord Wellesley divided it into three. Part he put underthe rule of the Company, adding it to the Madras Presi-dency. Part he gave to the Nizam, who had helped him
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TIPPOO SULTANS BODY WAS FOUND BURIED BENEATH THOSE OF HIS FOLLOWERS. TIPPOO SULTAN 428 in the war, and part he formed into a new kingdom, andupon the throne he placed a little boy, a descendant ofthe king whom Hyder Ali had driven out. But thiskingdom was really under British rule also. Tippoo had been such a cruel ruler, that all overIndia there was rejoicing at his downfall, and the peoplemade songs about it which were remembered and sung forlong after. Fill the wine-cup fast for the storm is past,The tyrant Tippoo is slain at last,And victory smilesTo reward the toilsOf Britons once again. Let the trumpet sound, and the sound go round Along the bound of Eastern ground; Let the Cymbals clang With a merry merry bang. To the joys of the next campaign. CHAPTER XV WARRIOR CHIEFTAINS When Seringapatam was taken, letters from the Nawabof the Carnatic were found in Tippoos palace. Theseletters showed that the Nawab had been plotting withTippoo against the British. The Nawab was by this tim

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