Seringapatam

American  

[suh-ring-guh-puh-tam] / səˌrɪŋ gə pəˈtæm /

noun

1. a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.

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Seringapatam British  

/ səˌrɪŋɡəpəˈtæm /

noun

1. a small town in S India, in Karnataka on Seringapatam Island in the Cauvery River: capital of Mysore from 1610 to 1799, when it was besieged and captured by the British. Pop: 23 448 (2001)

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Example Sentences

Seringapatam, built at the Bombay Dockyard in 1819.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

In the year 1848 I found myself traveling through the Mysorean country of Seringapatam, so familiar to every reader of Indian history, for the rapid rise of that crafty but talented Asiatic Hyder Ali.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Here see the robe worn by Tippoo Sahib, when killed at Seringapatam, in 1799. 

From Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood by Anonymous

But the genius of Hyder was in the tomb; and the English army, under Cornwallis, forced its way to the ramparts of Seringapatam.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

Seringapatam was taken by storm and Tipú was slain.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane