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

At the successful assault of Seringapatam Baird led the storming party, and was soon a master of the stronghold in which he had long been a prisoner.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

How could he, poor youth, when Miss Clarina Mowbray only talked upon high life, till proud Colonel Pompley went in state through the history of the siege of Seringapatam.

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

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

This empire, recognised at last, in the vote of thanks passed by the house of commons on the fall of Seringapatam, was soon to be aggrandised by three important accessions of dominion.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)