Beatson, Alexander: A view of the origin and conducts of the war with Tippoo Sultaun: comprising a narrative of the operations of the army under the command of Lieutenant George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam (London, 1800)

OF THE WAR WITH TIPPOO SULTAUN.

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T^HE island of Seringapatam is three miles and a half in length
from east to west, and about a mile and a half in breadth. It is
formed by the river Cauvery, and rises considerably in the middle,
from which there is a gradual slope towards the river. The
fortress occupies two thousand yards of the west extremity of this
island, and is a place of great strength. Covered upon the north
and west by the Cauvery, it was defended until the peace of 1792,
by a single rampart: the east and west faces, being considered
weaker, were strengthened by double walls and ditches, by out-
works before the gates, by a strong circular work upon the south-
east angle, and by several formidable cavaliers within, and upon
the southern rampart.
Perhaps no place of the same extent of fortification, ever
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