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Rare News from India, or, Things going on swimmingly in the East   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Rare News from India, or, Things going on swimmingly in the East
Description
English: British soldiers float head foremost downhill in a river or flood which crosses the design diagonally from right to left and derives from the copious urination of a prancing horse: 'Tippoo's Horse', which rears in the upper right corner. The flood is inscribed 'Heavy Ra/eins or Monsoon Tip! O!' The soldiers lie on their backs, some holding muskets; one holds up a Royal Standard. An officer with drawn sword (left), in the lower and nearer part of the flood, says, "They cant call the being driven thus a defeat - its only a retreat to return with more vigour - or, why not a compleat Victory - for they dont follow us - and yet we are nothing the better - and as Victors it was a cursed foolish thing to leave our Provisions - behind - Indeed our Situation is very Serious." Beside the stream are the words 'Current Retreat or Zenophon Outdone'. A signpost points (right) 'To Seringapatam', (left and downwards) 'To Bangalore'. In a tributary stream in the foreground (right) are the floating heads of oxen and two cannon. 5 December 1791
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Depicted people Associated with: Sultan Tipu
Date 1791
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 249 millimetres
Width: 349 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
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1868,0808.6134
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

A satire on the news from India published in the London newspapers on 30 Nov. and 1 Dec. Cornwallis, after the capture of Bangalore (see BMSat 7904), threatened Seringapatam, but was forced to retreat owing to the monsoon and the failure of the commissariat. But after retiring he was joined by Punt and the Mahratta cavalry and a great campaign was planned for the ensuing year; in Nov. and Dec. he reduced the supposedly impregnable hill-forts of Nundydroog and Severndroog, beginning the siege of Seringapatam on 5 Feb. 1792. 'Camb. Hist. of India', v. 336-7; 'Cornwallis Correspondence', ii. 96 ff. Cornwallis (p. 116) writes bitterly of the attitude of the Opposition towards the war. Cf. 'Parl. Hist.' xxix. 615-17. See also BMSats 7929, 7932, 7939, 8059, 8060, 8090.
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