See also:JOHN See also:JACOB (1812-1858)
, See also:Indian soldier and See also:administrator, was See also:born on the zsth of See also:January 1812, educated at Addiscombe, and entered the Bombay See also:artillery in 1828
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He served, in the first Afghan See also:War under See also:Sir See also:John See also:Keane, and afterwards led his See also:regiment with distinction at the battles of See also:Meeanee, Shandadpur, and See also:Umarkot; but it is as commandant of the See also:Sind See also:Horse and See also:political See also:superintendent of Upper Sind that he was chiefly famous
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He was the pacificator of the Sind frontier, reducing the tribes to quietude as niuch by his commanding See also:personality as by his ubiquitous military See also:measures
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In 1853 he foretold the Indian See also:Mutiny, saying: " There is more danger to our Indian See also:empire from the See also:state of the See also:Bengal See also:army, from the feeling which there exists between the native and the See also:European, and thence. spreads throughout the length and breadth of the See also:land, than from all other causes combined
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Let See also:government look to this; it is a serious and most important truth "; but he was only rebuked by See also:Lord See also:Dalhousie for his pains
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He was a friend of Sir See also:Charles See also:Napier and Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Outram, and resembled them in his out-spoken criticisms and See also:independence of authority
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He died at the See also:early See also:age of 46 of See also:brain See also:fever, brought on by excessive See also:heat and overwork
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The See also:town of See also:Jacobabad, which has the reputation of being the hottest See also:place in See also:India, is named after him
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Shand, See also:General John See also:Jacob (1900)
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