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Title: The Tiger of Mysore
A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib

Author: G. A. Henty

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THE TIGER OF MYSORE:

A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib

by

G. A. HENTY.

Illustrated by W. H. Margetson

1895

Preface.
Chapter 1: A Lost Father.
Chapter 2: A Brush With Privateers.
Chapter 3: The Rajah.
Chapter 4: First Impressions.
Chapter 5: War Declared.
Chapter 6: A Perilous Adventure.
Chapter 7: Besieged.
Chapter 8: The Invasion Of Mysore.
Chapter 9: News Of The Captive.
Chapter 10: In Disguise.
Chapter 11: A Useful Friend.
Chapter 12: A Tiger In A Zenana.
Chapter 13: Officers Of The Palace.
Chapter 14: A Surprise.
Chapter 15: Escape.
Chapter 16: The Journey.
Chapter 17: Back At Tripataly.
Chapter 18: A Narrow Escape.
Chapter 19: Found At Last.
Chapter 20: The Escape.
Chapter 21: Home.

Preface.

While some of our wars in India are open to the charge that they were
undertaken on slight provocation, and were forced on by us in order
that we might have an excuse for annexation, our struggle with Tippoo
Saib was, on the other hand, marked by a long endurance of wrong, and
a toleration of abominable cruelties perpetrated upon Englishmen and
our native allies. Hyder Ali was a conqueror of the true Eastern type.
He was ambitious in the extreme. He dreamed of becoming the Lord of
the whole of Southern India. He was an able leader, and, though
ruthless where it was his policy to strike terror, he was not cruel
from choice.

His son, Tippoo, on t