AN 18TH-CENTURY BAYONET FROM THE ARSENAL OF TIPU SULTAN
Mar 17, 2022
2 minutes
BY SCOT HURST
HIS bayonet is associated with Tipu Sultan (reign 1782-1799), who ruled over the Sultanate of Mysore in southern India as the self-styled Tiger of Mysore. His legacy is a difficult one and hotly debated by historians. In 18th-century Britain, he was portrayed as a tyrannical warlord, but in much of
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