Brave Search:
The individual described is Samuel H. Cuff, a young English archaeologist who was captured by Tipu Sultan’s forces in the Holy Land during the late 18th century.
He was mutilated by having his nose and one of his hands cut off.
Cuff later underwent a surgical procedure to reconstruct his nose using a flap of skin from his forehead, an operation that was reportedly practiced in India at the time.
Thank you. But I understood the story I read was fiction. Interesting.