Tipu Sultan’s Secret Envoy: Mir Ghulam Ali’s Mission to France and Napoleon
The Hindu recorded that Tipu Sultan’s trusted envoy Mir Ghulam Ali approached Napoleon for assistance against the British. Other historical records provide the wider setting for that account: a mission associated with Louis XVI, a surviving French royal medal, Tipu’s “phantom admiralty,” diplomatic operations conducted in strict secrecy, and his later connections with the ruling […]
