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	Indian Ocean - Scott & Seringapatam Reefs
		The reef, covering 106 km², is composed of a narrow reef-crest that is backed by broad reef flats â” much of which becomes exposed at low tide â” and a deep central lagoon that is connected to the open sea by two delta-like channels.
		The Scott and Seringapatam Reefs are but one group amongst a number of reef formations that lie of the northwest coast of Australia.
		Further to the northeast lies Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island, and to the southwest are the reefs of the Rowley Shoals.
	www.oceandots.com /indian/scott-seringapatam (430 words)

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		In the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799, the Battle of Seringapatam was the final confrontation between the British and Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, who was killed when the British broke into the fortress.
		The battle consisted of a series of encounters around Srirangapatnam (Seringapatam) in the months of April and May, 1799 between the combined forces of the British East India Company and their allies, numbering over 50,000 soldiers in all, and the soldiers of the Kingdom of Mysore, ruled by Tipu Sultan, numbering up to 30,000.
		Seringapatam was besieged by the British forces on April 5, 1799.
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		Srirangapattana (Kannada:ಶ್ರೀರಂಗಪಟ್ಟಣ) (also spelt Srirangapatna; anglicized to Seringapatam during the British Raj) is a town in the Mandya district of the Indian state of Karnataka.
		Battle of Seringapatam, 1799: Srirangapattana was the scene of the last and decisive battle fought between Tipu Sultan and the British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington), who later also defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
		The Battle of Seringapatam, 1799, was truly momentous in its historic effects: had Tipu won that battle, the British may never have had anything more than a peripheral role in the subsequent history of south India.
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	Seringapatam
		Under Tipu Sahib, Seringapatam was the capital of Mysore until it was besieged and captured by the British in 1799 during the Fourth Mysore War.
		Seringapatam was a whaler operating as a privateer without a commission that was captured by the prize ship, Greenwich, off Tumbez, Peru, on 13 July 1813.
		Prior to Porter's departure on 12 December, Seringapatam, Sir Andrew Hammond, and Greenwich were moved under the guns of the fort, and a force was ordered to stay on the island under the command of Lt. John M. Gamble, USMC.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s10/seringapatam.htm (308 words)

	Seringapatam 1799: Introduction
		The ancient fortress city of Seringapatam (now called Srirangapatna or Srirangapatnam) was the capital for the Muslim rulers of the kingdom of Mysore, Haidar Ali (c.1722 - 1782) and his eldest son, Tipu Sultan (1753 -1799).
		He first marched there in 1791 as part of the ill-fated British expedition that was forced to retreat from Periapatam with the onset of the monsoon rains (in May) before it formed a juncture with Cornwallis' grand army.
		The manuscripts of the 'Seringapatam' journal and the 'Seedapore' letter are held by the Mitchell Library, Sydney (Australia).
	www.lib.mq.edu.au /digital/seringapatam/intro.html (932 words)

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