Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Colonel Bailey's Dungeon

Mysore - I thought it was a dungeon built by the British to in-prison Indian prisoners of war in fact it was the opposite.  Built by Tipu Sultan to house high ranking British officers and most noteably Colonel Bailey.   Strange but true, the British fought and lost in their Anglo-Mysore wars.



stairs down to the dungeons
wall of doom
The walls have concrete stubs to chain the hands of the prisoners to the left and right.

Fort surrounding the dungeon

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