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| Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Bowser | | | First Name(s) | Sir Thomas | | | Year of Birth | 1748 | | | Year of Death | 1833 | | | Entry | Born 1748, at Kirkby Thore, Westmorland : educated at Appleby Grammar School : entered the E.I. Co.'s Army at 24 : at the taking of Tanjore in 1773 : for 3 years engaged in the capture of forts in the N. Sircars : at the siege of Pondicherry, 1778 : in the Guntur Sircar campaign, 1779 : as a Lieutenant, in Sir Hector Munro's army in 1780, sent to help Col. Baillie and, with him, taken prisoner by Hyder Ali in the Perambakam disaster, Sept. 1780 : confined at Seringapatam 3 years and 8 months : loaded with irons for 3 years and 4 months : liberated, 1784 : to England for 3 years : published in 1788 his Memoirs of The Late War in Asia : served under Medows in 1792, at the storming of Dindigul : given by Cornwallis the command of a sepoy battalion : served under General Braithwaite at the siege of Pondicherry, 1798 : employed against the Raja of Ramnad : effected the reduction of Ceylon, 1796 : took fort Calpentein and Colombo : sent to reduce the French force under Perron at Hyderabad : at Seringapatam, May 4, 1799 : stormed the fortress of Gooty : commanded from Hyderabad a mixed force, joining Colonel A. Wellesley, against Doondia Waugh : to England, 1803 : again to India in 1820 : commanded the Mysore Division : was temporarily C. in C. of Madras Army, 1824-6, on the death of Sir Alexander Campbell : retired, May, 1826 : was a Lt-General and K.C.B. : died June, 1833. |
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