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OCHTERLONY, SIR DAVID

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OCHTERLONY, See also:SIR See also:DAVID , See also:Bart. (1758–1825), See also:British genera], was See also:born at See also:Boston, See also:Mass., U.S.A., on the 12th of See also:February 1758, and went to See also:India as a See also:cadet in 1777. He served under See also:Lord See also:Lake in the battles of Koil, See also:Aligarh and See also:Delhi, and was appointed See also:resident at Delhi in 1803. In 1804, having been promoted to the See also:rank of See also:major-See also:general, he defended the See also:city with a very inadequate force against an attack by See also:Holkar. On the outbreak of the See also:Nepal See also:War (1814–15) he was given the command of one of four converging columns, and his services were rewarded with a baronetcy in 1815. Subsequently he was promoted to the command of the See also:main force in its advance on See also:Katmandu, and outmanoeuvring the Gurkhas by a flank See also:march at the Kourea See also:Ghat Pass, brought the war to a successful conclusion and obtained the See also:signature of the treaty of Segauli (1816), which dictated the subsequent relations of the British with Nepal. For this success Ochterlony was created G.C.B., the first See also:time that See also:honour had been conferred on an officer of the See also:Indian See also:army. In the Pindari War (1817–18) he was in command of the See also:Rajputana See also:column, made a See also:separate agreement with See also:Amir See also:Khan, detaching him from the See also:Pindaris, and then, interposing his own force between the two main divisions of the enemy, brought the war to an end without an engagement. He was appointed resident in Rajputana in 1818, with which the residency at Delhi was subsequently combined. When Durjan Sal revolted in 1825 against Balwant Singh, the See also:infant See also:Raja of See also:Bharatpur, Ochterlony acting on his own responsibility supported the raja by See also:proclamation and ordered out a force to support him. Lord See also:Amherst, however, repudiated these proceedings. Ochterlony, who was bitterly chagrined by this rebuff, resigned his See also:office, and retired to Delhi.

The feeling that the confidence which his length of service merited had not been given him by the See also:

governor-general is said to have accelerated his See also:death, which occurred at See also:Meerut on the 15th of See also:July 1825. The Ochterlony column at See also:Calcutta commemorates his name. See Major See also:Ross of Bladensburg, The See also:Marquess of See also:Hastings (" Rulers of India " See also:series) (1893).

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