Why The Founding Fathers Were Obsessed with This Muslim Ruler

PBS why are you hiring angry little guys like this guy?

"Piles of (unused) spices" lmao. I love referring to Tipu as having a Special Interest because man was like I am with rats. That was either a neurodivergent man with a hyperfixation, or someone with so much commitment to the bit as to be actually insane.

Dying for other peoples wealth to increase. What a pathetic fate. East Indian Goofy Company.

You explained this so well, thank you!

The Americans are not the only ones unaware of Tipu Sultan's role in their independence struggle, Indians today are equally ignorant of his role in their independence struggle. His contribution has been deliberately erased from Indian history.

After all those centuries, America went on to "use" muslim warriors, tribes, their loyalties, score boards…. not just their inspirational stories, but armed them against the soviets, and supported them across central and south Asia. Really gives you pause for thought about what has happened since the cold war in Afghanistan, then Pakistan…. And now it fully supports a new muslim "sultan" (but very far apart from Tipu's legacy and character), the self coronated field marshal of Pakistan. I wonder when saner alliances will be forged and the balance of humanity restored.

Tipu probably would have won if not for the betrayal of Mir Sadiq and Mir Nadim. And he wasn't fighting the British only, he was fighting the Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad.

fascinating

It's great to see a presentation of a lesser known bit of American Revolutionary history, but the constant injection of this "Hello, fellow kids" idiocy transforms the entire thing into insufferable, trite idiocy.

Respect your audience enough to speak to them like adults.

I have read a lot on Tippu Sultan and East India Company. After the disaster in America Cornwallis was asked to go and take in charge of Governor general of Madras in India as they felt they needed some one really good to take on Tippu after second Anglo-Mysore War. Pitts and Dundas (Then PM of Britain and a Scottish Politician) tried to convince Cornwallis, but Cornwallis initially refused and said unless they combine authority of Governar General and Commander in chief he won't go. Finally they did combine those legal powers that made Cornwallis to come to Madras. Once he reached here he once again saw same old foes – French because of whom he had lost America. That made even more convinced that unless French influence is not removed in Indian subcontinent, British authority will always be uncertain.

Unironically Tipu was crappier version of his father Hyder Ali who actually won his battles

What are your credentials sir? You keep referring to those Europeans as Americans, but the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773 over 2 years before even the Declaration of Independence.

You said Americans dressed in highly problematic… Americans being jargon for United States citizens, the United States didn't exist yet. You should have said Europeans, sir. Which they still are, but back then weren't citizens of a country which didn't exist yet.

They were also trading massive amounts of Opium and Hashish, History doesn't want the world to know that the British Empire was a Drug cartel.

Rather problematic costumes?!?! Come on PBS…we have moved past this in our culture…by leaving out the fact the were dressed as Indians you are mixing tons of context and meaning behind the story. Oh wait "Indian" is racist now right? How could I be so inconsiderate? What I meant were Nobel Redmen Savages. There we go much better

The butchering of pronunciations is insane.

The aid of the Spanish Empire is often overlooked.

Commie narratives and broken clocks.

When George Washington defeated Cornwallis he was given a new assignment by the British Empire to exploit the Indian subcontinent in their interests.

Cornwallis commanded British forces during the American Revolution. He is most remembered for surrendering to the combined American and French armies led by George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at the Siege of Yorktown in Virginia.
That surrender in 1781 effectively ended major fighting and led to American independence

I think you missed the whole Mir Zafar plot

Things haven’t changed a bit. Today the US , deep state , terrorist state (paxtan) are doing the same thing. They support the Muslim league party Khangress to derail current stable government.

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An Islamic Jihadi Tyrant who butchered Hindus and Christians like no one else.
And how did he became the King of that region by attacking and imprisoning those very same people who saved him and gave them a space to live.

Can't trust a mallecha.