L` Assaut et la prise de Seringapatam le 4 de Mai 1799

1799

Original hand-coloured engraving on paper

11 x 15 in   |  27.9 x 38.1 cm

Major General Baird having divided his force into two divisions, one under the command of Colonel Sherbrooke and the other of Colonel Dunlop, the troops ascended the breach under a heavy fire, when the latter officer was severely wounded, but though vigorously opposed, both divisions, were completely successful.

The first in a series of four plates of the siege and capture of Seringapatam, the battle that ended the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. It shows the melee once the East India Company troops breached the walls and entered the city. In the centre of the scene is an officer (probably Major-General David Baird, leader of the attack) with raised sword.

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