The Captivity, Sufferings, And Escape, Of James Scurry - Scurry, James
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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James Scurry was a British soldier and author who lived from 1766 to 1822. Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan held him hostage at Seringapatam for 10 years, from 1780 to 1790. He had been kept as a prisoner, first at Bangalore and then at the Seringapatnam fort. In Chitterdroog, he reached an English camp after escaping from Tipu's army. In 1794, he wrote a story about his time in prison, but it wasn't published until 1824 after he had died. After getting to England, Scurry worked in many places. He first worked as a supervisor for a grocery wholesaler, and then he started his own grocery store. He got married again in 1800 and had eight children, but only one son and one daughter lived to adulthood. He is known for his memoir, The captivity, sufferings, and escape of James Scurry, who was held as a prisoner for ten years, in the dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib (1824). In it, he talks about how Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the rulers of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, treated captured English soldiers, Mangalorean Catholics, and other prisoners of war.