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The British encountered no stouter resistance in India than Mysore’s gifted commmander Hyder Ali and his son, Tipu.
… In 1778, King Louis Xvi of France declared war on Britain, and London responded by driving the colonial French out of the port of Mahé in Mysore, a kingdom in southwest India dating back to the turn of the fifteenth century … Purniya was as gifted in peacetime as Tipu had been in war, and Mysore flourished thereafter as one of British India’s most progressive …