SIR

See also:

• HECTOR

HECTOR

See also:

• MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (1819-1885)
• MUNRO, MUNRO
• SIR HECTOR MUNRO (1726-1805)
• MUNRO, SIR THOMAS (1761-1827)

MUNRO (1726-1805)  , British general, son of Hugh Munro of Novar, in Cromarty, was born in 1726, and entered the army in 1749 . He went to Bombay in 1761, in command of the 89th regiment, and in that year effected the surrender of Mahe from the French . Later, when in command of the Bengal army, he suppressed a mutiny of sepoys at Patna, and on the 23rd of October 1764 won the victory of Buxar against Shuja-ud-Dowlah, the nawab wazir of Oudh, and Mir Kasim, which ranks amongst the most decisive battles ever fought in India . Returning home, he became in 1768 M.P. for the Inverness Burghs, which he continued to represent in parliament for more than thirty years, though a considerable portion of this period was spent in India, whither he returned in 1778 to take command of the Madras army . In that year he took Pondicherry from the French, but in 178o he was defeated by Hyder Ali near Conjeeveram, and forced .to fall back on St Thomas's Mount . There Sir Eyre Coote took over command of the army, and in 1781 won a signal victory against Hyder Ali at Porto Novo, where Munro was in command of the right division . Negapatam was taken by Munro in November of the same year; and in 1782 he returned to England . He died on the 27th of December 1805 .