Select Letters of Tippoo Sultan to Various Public Functionaries: Including His Principal Military Commanders, Governors of Forts and Provinces, ... Agents, &C., &C., &C
Tipu engaged in expansionist attacks against his neighbours. He remained an implacable enemy of the British East India Company, bringing them into renewed conflict with his attack on British-allied Travancore in 1789.
In the Third Anglo-Mysore War, Tipu was forced into the humiliating Treaty of Seringapatam, losing a number of previously conquered territories, including Malabar and Mangalore.