Hello Bernard,
Last December Is lucky enough to spend a morning looking around Sriringapatnam. Armed with Jac Weller’s book. The place is more or less untouched since 1799. I walked around the walls and saw the scars of the British cannonballs and then the Sultan’s Summer palace that Arthur moved into after the siege. Best of all, was standing on the walls and looking across the Cauvery thinking of the British and Sepoys lying in the blistering sun until noon to carry out their surprise attack.
Another surprise was the copy of the illustration of those involved which I stumbled on in the summer palace in Mysore, complete with a cartoon ‘glossary’ naming all the officers involved. (Possibly the same one as in Sandhurst which I haven’t seen).
An amazing experience. Somehow, his early life intrigues me more as I wanted to know how a man like that is shaped by life.
I should buy your book of course!
An enthusiastic reader of your Warrior series and an Old Monktonian to boot! (1971).
Keep them coming! I want to know when he gets to Bebbanburg! Or perhaps he never does but his son might!! Great stuff!
Regards.
John Pilkington.