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Tango01  | 25 Feb 2024 6:31 p.m. PST |
…Club in India
"After Tipu's death, the East India Company orchestrated a propaganda campaign to justify its invasion of Mysore, presenting him as a collaborator in a plot to destabilise governments throughout the world.
In May 1797, the French Revolution came to Mysore. Although it had been reduced in size after a defeat to the British East India Company in 1792, Mysore – located in what is now southern India – remained a formidable obstacle to British designs on the region. Its ruler, Tipu Sultan (1750-99), drew on French support while pursuing an ambitious project of domestic reform and engaging in frequent wars with his neighbours. His good relations with France had been capped by an embassy to Paris in 1787-88, and were given lasting shape by ‘Tipu's Tiger', an automaton created by French technicians and Mysorean artisans. But now, in the shadow of his palace at Srirangapatnam, a contingent of mercenaries and advisors from France (forbidden by treaty with Britain to maintain a formal military presence) gathered to seal the special Franco-Mysorean relationship in a revolutionary way…" Main page
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
