Annotation:Surrender of Seringapatam
X:1
T:Surrender of Seringapatam
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Country Dance
B:Preston's Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1800
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
d/c/|BGG AGG|dBG AGG|BAG dBG|eAA A2d/c/|
BGG EGG|DGG BGG|cdc BcB|AGA {AB}c2:|
|:c|BAG dBG|dBG BAG|BAGdBG|FAA A2c|
BAG dBd|gfe dcB|cdc BdB|AGA {AB}c2:|]
SURRENDER OF SERINGAPATAM. English, Country Dance Tune & Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. According to Wikipedia: "The Siege of Seringapatam (from April to May, 1799) was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. The British, with the allied Nizam of Hyderabad and Maratha, achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam and storming the citadel. Tipu Sultan, Mysore's ruler, was killed in the action.[1] The British restored the Wodeyar dynasty to the throne after the victory, but retained indirect control of the kingdom. The leader of the British troops was Major General David Baird."