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Historical person
1757–1829
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet was a British army officer who fought extensively in India and later commanded expeditions elsewhere. Once held prisoner by Tipu Sultan, he took part in the capture of Seringapatam and later served in campaigns in Egypt, the Cape and Spain.
Anthony Morland’s The Tiger’s Last Roar places Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, military command and battlefield decision-making, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter.
Historical context
Series
The Life of William Culpepper follows a fictional British officer from the Revolutionary Wars in Europe into the East India Company’s campaigns in India. The sequence begins with the Flanders campaign and the Battle of Boxtel, then moves through the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the unstable aftermath of Tipu…
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