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Garrison Cemetery, Seringapatam : ウィキペディア英語版 | Garrison Cemetery, Seringapatam
The Garrison Cemetery is located in Seringapatam, on the banks of the river Cauvery, about 300m from the Bangalore Mysore Highway. It has about 307 graves of the European officers killed in the final assault on Tippu Sultan in 1799, and their family members. Among the graves, there are 80 graves of the officers of the Swiss ‘de Meuron Regiment’, and the rest of the graves are their family members.〔 The cemetery entrance gate has a marble stone, reads, “Garrison Cemetery AD 1800. Latest burial 1860.” A few tombs are imposing, while others are small, some shaped like of a coffin and said to be the remains of infants who died of plague. Many officers of the Swiss mercenary de Meuron Regiment are buried here. ==Regiment de Meuron== (詳細はDutch East India Company, and even fought against the British East India Company in Ceylon. Following the abeyance of wage payments by the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon in 1795, the regiment held negotiations with the British East India Company and joined their services with 800 men. The Regiment de Meuron took part in the Siege of Seringapatam (1799) against Tippu Sultan.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mysore.ind.in/garrison-cemetery )〕
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