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 Officers of the Bengal Army 1863 - Rank and Services F-I
| Date transcribed | 2008-01-31 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Each Officer of the Bengal Army still alive and serving in 1863 is mentioned with his Career Progression and War Service |
 | Surname | Hall | | | First Name(s) | H | | | Honours | CB | | | Rank | Lieutenant-General | | | Regiment | late 21st Native Infantry | | | Commissions | Ensign, 10 Sep 05 / Lieut, 13 Mar 06 / Captain, 5 Oct 21 _ Major, 13 Jan 28 / Lieut-Colonel, 9 Jan 33 / Colonel, 21 Dec 44 / Major-General, 20 Jun 54 / Lieut -General, 24 Oct 58 | | | Service | Lieutenant-General Hall served at the reduction of the Bundlecund Province, in 06, 07, which included the sieges of Unda, Burgowa, Cheemere, and the surrender of nineteen other forts; as Adjutant of the 4th Light Battalion, at the storming of the fortified hills of Rogoulee, and at the siege of the first class hill fortress of Adjeeghur, in 09, under Sir G. Martindell; also -with the Army under General Sir Gabriel Martindell, which kept Nawab Mheer Khan in check, and prevented his invading our dominions; with a light Force reducing the enterprising Chief, Ghopaul Sing, up the Bundlecund Ghauts, in 10, 11; at the siege of the first class hill fortress of Callenger, in 11, 12, under Sir Gabriel Martindell; also as Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master-General with Sir David Ochterlonys Division of the Grand Army, in the Great Pindarree War of 17, 18, which was carried on by the Marquis of Hastings; subsequently, in the same capacity (Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master-General), till 23 (from 17), on various services, including the reduction of the first class hill fortress of Taraghur, under Sir Alexander Knox; the sieges of Maharajpore and Nussreeda, during the rains of same year, in Rajpootana. The first Campaign of Mhairwarra, in 19; the second in 21, comprising attacks on Jog-Shamghur, fort of Huttoon Burrar, Kot Kurrana, Ramghur, and Cheetar, which in result finally subdued that destructive race, the Mhairs; in the action of Mongrowl, against the Kotah Rajah, in 21; and the siege of Samba, in 22. During this period, 17 to 23, the various duties of the Guide and Intelligence Department and also general political duties for Sir David Ochterlony were discharged by Lieutenant-General Hall, as well as those of the Quarter-Master-Generals Department, and all so satisfactorily, that in 22 the Marquis of Hastings appointed him to the important duties of civilising the turbulent race of Mhairs. And to effect this, he raised a Corps, composed chiefly of that tribe, equal to any of the Line, in discipline; and its fidelity (as well as that of the whole race,) was severely tested during the late out-break of the Bengal Army, on which occasion it aided materially to save the city of Ajmere, its magazine, and all kind of stores, artillery, treasury, and jail, from falling into the hands of the mutineers at Nusseerabad (only 11 miles distant); and also afforded, both at Ajmere and the Head Quarters of the Corps at Beaur, a refuge for the Officers and their families, in short, for all Europeans. The dreadful custom of female infanticide, slavery, sale of women, murder, and universal plunder completely ceased. During his career General Hall received the publicly expressed approbation of the different authorities, from the Governor-General downwards, nearly fifty times. |
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