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JAMES SKINNER (1778-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:SKINNER (1778-1841)  , See also:British military adventurer in See also:India, son of Lieut.-See also:Colonel See also:Hercules See also:Skinner, was See also:born in India in 1778, his See also:mother being a See also:Rajput See also:lady . At the See also:age of eighteen he entered the Mahratta See also:army under de See also:Boigne, where he soon showed military talents; and he remained in the same service under See also:Perron until 1803, when, on the outbreak of the Mahratta See also:War, he refused to serve against his countrymen . He joined See also:Lord See also:Lake, and raised a See also:regiment of irregular See also:horse called " Skinner's Horse " or the " Yellow Boys," which became the most famous regiment of See also:light See also:cavalry in the India of that See also:day . He was See also:present at the See also:siege of See also:Bharatpur, and in 1818 was granted a jagir yielding Rs . 20,000 a See also:year, appointed See also:lieutenant-colonel in the British service and made C.B . He had an intimate knowledge of the See also:character of the natives of India, and his See also:advice was highly valued by successive See also:governor-generals and See also:corn--See also:SKIPPON manders-in-See also:chief . He died at See also:Hansi on the 4th of See also:December 1841, and was buried in a See also:church at See also:Delhi which is called after his name . See J . See also:Baillie See also:Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel See also:James Skinner (1851) .

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