IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141441 accession number: CM.1347-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 15 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mysore, in the far south of modern India, was the centre of a kingdom from the fifteenth century until 1947, but from the late eighteenth century and especially after the close of the Anglo-Maratha Wars one that felt itself increasingly menaced by the growing territory of the British East India Company. This led Tipu Sultan, the so-called Tiger of Mysore, to make an alliance with France prior to attacking the British Protectorate of Travancore in 1790. The French Revolution of that year meant that the aid on which Tipu had relied did not transpire, and Mysore lost considerable amounts of territory in its subsequent defeat by the British East India Company's forces. At the close of the campaign, the British government, by means of the East India Co., issued this medal to its Indian troops who had served in it. This medal is unnamed, and its recipient, who would have been one of the many different nationalities of Indian troops employed by the Company on this campaign, cannot be retrieved. Lester Watson purchased the medal from the dealer Gifford in 1927. title: Mysore Campaign Medal NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Gifford 1927. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Lester Watson Collection creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141441 TECHNIQUES ---------- struck CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1792 - 1792 creation date earliest: 1792 creation date latest: 1792 CREATORS -------- maker: Calcutta maker: East India Company maker: Mair, Mr maker: George III (1760-1820) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 38 dimension: Weight units: g value: 15.84 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals title: Imagery of War CITATIONS -------- British Battles and Medals 7th edn British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 129 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 129 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 129 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 129 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 132 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 132 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 132 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0230_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 132 pixels