Tipu sultan

Sultan of  Mysore

Sultan of Mysore

Reign	29 December 1782 – 4 May 1799
Coronation	29 December 1782
Predecessor	Hyder Ali
Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
Full name                            Fath Ali Khan
House	Kingdom of Mysore
Father	Hyder Ali
Mother	Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa
Born	20 November 1750 Devanahalli, present-dayBangalore, Karnataka
Died	4 May 1799 (aged 48) Srirangapatna, present-day Karnataka
Burial	Srirangapatna, present-day Karnataka 12°24′36″N 76°42′50″E
Religion	Islam Mysorean rockets Tipu Sultan's father had expanded on Mysore's use of rocketry, making critical innovations in the rockets themselves and the military logistics of their use. He deployed as many as 1,200 specialised troops in his army to operate rocket launchers. These men were skilled in operating the weapons and were trained to launch their rockets at an angle calculated from the diameter of the cylinder and the distance to the target. The rockets had blades mounted on them, and could wreak significant damage when fired en masse against a large army. Tipu greatly expanded the use of rockets after Hyder's death, deploying as many as 5,000 rocketeers at a time. The rockets deployed by Tipu during the Battle of Pollilur were much more advanced than those the British East India Company had previously seen, chiefly because of the use of iron tubes for holding the propellant; this enabled higher thrust and longer range for the missiles (up to 2 km range). British accounts describe the use of the rockets during the third and fourth wars. During the climactic battle at Srirangapatna in 1799, British shells struck a magazine containing rockets, causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke with cascades of exploding white light rising up from the battlements. After Tipu's defeat in the fourth war the British captured a number of the Mysorean rockets. These became influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, which was soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars.

29 December 1782 – 4 May 1799

29 December 1782

Hyder Ali

Krishnaraja Wodeyar III

Full name
Fath Ali Khan

                           Fath Ali Khan

 Kingdom of Mysore

Hyder Ali

Fatima Fakhr-un-Nisa

20 November 1750
Devanahalli, present-dayBangalore, Karnataka

4 May 1799 (aged 48)
Srirangapatna, present-day Karnataka

Srirangapatna, present-day Karnataka
12°24′36″N 76°42′50″E

Islam

Mysorean rockets

Tipu Sultan's father had expanded on Mysore's use of rocketry, making critical innovations in the rockets themselves and the military logistics of their use. He deployed as many as 1,200 specialised troops in his army to operate rocket launchers. These men were skilled in operating the weapons and were trained to launch their rockets at an angle calculated from the diameter of the cylinder and the distance to the target. The rockets had blades mounted on them, and could wreak significant damage when fired en masse against a large army. Tipu greatly expanded the use of rockets after Hyder's death, deploying as many as 5,000 rocketeers at a time. The rockets deployed by Tipu during the Battle of Pollilur were much more advanced than those the British East India Company had previously seen, chiefly because of the use of iron tubes for holding the propellant; this enabled higher thrust and longer range for the missiles (up to 2 km range).

British accounts describe the use of the rockets during the third and fourth wars. During the climactic battle at Srirangapatna in 1799, British shells struck a magazine containing rockets, causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke with cascades of exploding white light rising up from the battlements. After Tipu's defeat in the fourth war the British captured a number of the Mysorean rockets. These became influential in British rocket development, inspiring the Congreve rocket, which was soon put into use in the Napoleonic Wars.