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See also:SIR See also:DAVID See also:OCHTERLONY
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(1758–1825), See also:British genera], was See also:born at See also:Boston, See also:Mass., U.S.A., on the 12th of See also:February 1758, and went to See also:India as a See also:cadet in 1777
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He served under See also:Lord See also:Lake in the battles of Koil, See also:Aligarh and See also:Delhi, and was appointed See also:resident at Delhi in 1803
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In 1804, having been promoted to the See also:rank of See also:major-See also:general, he defended the See also:city with a very inadequate force against an attack by See also:Holkar
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On the outbreak of the See also:Nepal See also:War (1814–15) he was given the command of one of four converging columns, and his services were rewarded with a baronetcy in 1815
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Subsequently he was promoted to the command of the See also:main force in its advance on See also:Katmandu, and outmanoeuvring the Gurkhas by a flank See also: The feeling that the confidence which his length of service merited had not been given him by the See also:governor-general is said to have accelerated his See also:death, which occurred at See also:Meerut on the 15th of See also:July 1825 . The Ochterlony column at See also:Calcutta commemorates his name . See Major See also:Ross of Bladensburg, The See also:Marquess of See also:Hastings (" Rulers of India " See also:series) (1893) . |
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