2-715-801 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Tippoo Saib', c1790, (1890). Tipu Sultan (1750-1799) ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, deployed rockets against British forces and their allies during the Anglo-Mysore Wars and the Siege of Seringapatam. He has an ambitious economic development, introducing some of the world's highest real wages and living standards in the late 18th century. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]