SMITH (James).
Plan of the position of the Confederate Armies under the Direction of Earl Cornwallis before Seringapatam, from the 5 to the 24 Feb.y 1792 where the Cessation of Hostilities took place, including the Position of Tippoo Sultan's Army previous to the Action
SEEMINGLY UNRECORDED
James Smith (later Lieutenant-Colonel) was a young Engineer Officer serving with the East India Company on its Bengal establishment. Almost as soon as he had signed up, he joined the army sent north to Seringapatam, and served in the battle and subsequent siege of that city.
Smith later drew a plan of the action, a version of which (uncredited) was published in Home’s Select Views in Mysore, 1794, engraved by John Cooke. The British Library holds the watercolour which is credited to Holme.
This version of Smith’s map, which seems to be unrecorded, was ‘Reduced by M. Armstrong’, presumably the surveyor and mapmaker Mostyn John Armstrong. Armstrong supplied the map of the Carnatic and Mysore for Home’s volume, but this is from a second printing plate, although geographically near identical.
