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 Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed2011-03-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Forde    
First Name(s)  Francis    
Year of Birth  ?    
Year of Death  1770    
Entry  Colonel : son of Matthew Forde : Captain in the 39th regt., 1746 : Major, 1755 : was repulsed in an attack on Nellore, May, 1757 : joined the E.I. Co.'s Army in Bengal, 1758, as second to Clive : sent by Clive in Oct. 1758, with 500 Europeans and 2,000 sepoys to Vizagapatam, to create a diversion against the French in the Northern Sircars : defeated the Marquis de Conflans (who had replaced Bussy) at Condore, Dec. 1758 : took Rajamundry and Masulipatam in April, 1759 : thus gaining the N. Sircars and expelling the French : defeated the Dutch at Chinsura : went to England with Clive, who was his friend : and, on his recommendation, was one of the Commission of three (with Vansittart and Serafton) sent from England in 1769 to overhaul the Bengal administration : after touching at the Cape in Dec. 1769, their vessel was lost at sea.     
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