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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F

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Date transcribed	2011-03-01
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	Forster
	First Name(s)	Henry
	Year of Birth	1793
	Year of Death	1862
	Entry	Son of Henry Pitts Forster {q.v.), of the E.I. Co.'s Civil Service : entered the Mahratta Army, but joined ""Skinner's"" Horse in 1816: was second in command in 1822 : was in the Pindari campaign, and at Mahidpur : about 1834 he raised the Shekhawati Brigade and won several engagements against insurgents in Rajputana : was in the Satlaj campaign of 1845-6 with his Brigade : made C.B. and Colonel in the Queen's Army in 1854. In the mutiny his Shekhawati battalion was deputed to reduce the rebel 34th N.I., in Chota Nagpur : died in Calcutta, Oct. 9, 1862.

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