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See also:NICHOLSON, See also:JOHN (1822-18J7) , Anglo-See also:Indian soldier and See also:administrator, son of See also:Alexander Nicholson, a See also:north of See also:Ireland physician, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:December 1822 and educated at See also:Dungannon See also:College. He was presented with a cadetship in the See also:Bengal See also:infantry in 1839 by his See also:uncle See also:Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Hogg, and served in the first Afghan See also:War of 1839-42; he distinguished himself in the See also:defence of See also:Ghazni, and was one of the prisoners who were carried to See also:Bamian and escaped by bribing the guard upon See also:General See also:Pollock's successful advance. It was in See also:Afghanistan that Nicholson first met Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, who got him the See also:appointment of See also:political officer in See also:Kashmir and subsequently on the See also:Punjab frontier. In 1847 he was given See also:charge of the See also:Sind See also:Sagar See also:district, and did much to pacify the See also:country after the first See also:Sikh \See also:Var. On the seizure of See also:Multan by Mulraj, he rendered See also:great service in securing the country from See also:Attock, and was wounded in an attack upon a See also:tower in the Margalla Pass, where a See also:monument was subsequently erected to his memory. On the outbreak of the second Sikh War he was appointed political officer to See also:Lord See also:Gough's force, when he rendered great service in the collection of intelligence and in furnishing supplies and boats.
On the See also:annexation of the Punjab he was appointed See also:deputy See also:commissioner of See also:Bannu. There he became a See also:kind of legendary
procrastination, and at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was thinking of appealing to strategia. On the See also:death of See also:Pericles he was See also:left See also:leader of the the See also:army to set See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson aside and elect a successor; but at last,
on the 13th of See also:September, he forced Wilson to make up his mind to the See also:assault, and he himself was chosen to See also:lead the attacking See also:column. On the See also:morning of the 14th he led his column, r000 strong, in the attack on the Kashmir See also:gate, and successfully entered the streets of See also:Delhi. But in trying to clear the ramparts as far as the See also:Lahore Gate, he undertook a task beyond the See also:powers of his wearied troops. In encouraging them as they hesitated, he turned his back on the enemy and was shot in the back. The See also:wound was mortal, but his magnificent physique allowed him to linger for nine days before finally succumbing on the 23rd of September.
His best See also:epitaph is found in the words of Sir John Lawrence's See also:Mutiny See also:Report:
" Brigadier-General John Nicholson is now beyond human praise and human See also:reward. But so See also:long as See also:British See also:rule shall endure in See also:India, his fame can never perish. He seems especially to have been raised up for this juncture. He crowned a See also:bright, though brief, career by dying of the wound he received in the moment of victory at Delhi. The See also:Chief Commissioner does not hesitate to affirm that without John Nicholson Delhi could not have fallen."
See J. L. Trotter, See also:Life of John Nicholson (19o4) ; Sir John See also:Kaye, Lives of Indian See also:Officers (1889); See also:Bosworth See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, Life of Lord Lawrence (1883) ; See also:Lady See also:Edwardes, Memorials of Sir See also:Herbert Edwardes (1886); and S. S. Thorburn, Bannu (1876).
End of Article: NICHOLSON, JOHN (1822-18J7)
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