Tippoo Saib

son of Hyder Ali ( q. v .), whom he succeeded in the Sultanate of Mysore in 1782; already a trained and succe ful warrior in his father's struggles with the English, he set himself with implacable enmity to check the advance of British arms; in 1789 invaded Travancore, and in the subsequent war (1790-1792), after a desperate resistance, was overcome and deprived of half of his territories, and compelled to give in hostage his two sons; intrigued later with the French, and again engaged the English, but was defeated, and his capital, Seringa pat am, captured after a month's siege, himself perishing in the final attack (1749-1799).