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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I r appears by a work entitled, " An Historical and Political
" View of the Decan, by James Grant, Esq A That " the de-
" scendants of hve Musselmen princes, who had usurped the
" dominion of their respective governments, being stimulated by
" the ambition of conquest, and the intolerant spirit of their
" religion, had waged perpetual war, in confederacy, against
" Ramraje, the Hindoo monarch of Bejanagur, who at length
" was slain in a pitched battle near Tellecottah, on the banks
" of the Kistna, in the year i^6y. In consequence of this event,
" and a disputed succession, internally, to the throne of Beja-
" nagur, the Naiks, or governors of the large provinces, became
" independent. Such was the origin of the modern Hindoo prin-
" cipality of Mysore."
But, by information obtained since the capture of Seringapatam,
we End, that in the year 1600, Raije Worrear was a petty poligar