Hear me roar
OU detail that the wonderful tiger mortar () ‘disappeared’ (). In fact, it may be the one still to be seen in the Tower Armouries today. It is one of a pair that was captured (‘taken’, to use the correct military parlance) by Maj-Gen Wilson after the capture of Fort Kurnaul, in the Madras Presidency, during a ‘local disturbance’ in 1838. The two guns may have been cast for Tipu Sultan, the ‘Tiger of Mysore’, in the late 1700s. This one never seems to have been quite completed—the vent