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Lord Cornwallis's Campaigns During the Third Anglo-Mysore War

Detailed map of a portion of Southern India, illustrating the British Military Campaigns of 1791 and 1792.

The routes of the British Army are shown in Yellow and Blue, with the routes dated.

Alexander Beatson (1758 –1830), was an officer in the East India Company's service, governor of St. Helena, and an experimental agriculturist.  Beatson obtained a cadetship in 1775, and was appointed to an ensigncy in the Madras infantry, November 21, 1776. He served as an engineer officer in the war with Hyder Ali, although he appears never to have belonged to the engineers.

As lieutenant, he served with the Guides in Lord Cornwallis's campaigns against Tippu Sultan; and eight years after, as a field officer, was surveyor-general with the army under Lieutenant-general Harris, which captured Seringapatam in 1799. He attained the rank of colonel 1 Jan. 1801, before leaving India.