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See also:OUTRAM, 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 (1803—1863) , See also:English See also:general, and one of the heroes of the See also:Indian See also:Mutiny, was the son of See also:Benjamin Outram of Butterley See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Derbyshire, See also:civil engineer, and was See also:born on the 29th of See also:January 1803. His See also:father died in 18o5, and his See also:mother, a daughter of Dr James See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson, the Scottish writer on See also:agriculture, removed in 1810 to See also:Aberdeenshire. From Udny school the boy went in 1818 to the Marischal See also:College, See also:Aberdeen; and in 1819 an Indian cadetship was given him. Soon after his arrival at Bombay his remarkable See also:energy attracted See also:notice, and in See also:July 182o he became acting See also:adjutant to the first See also:battalion of the 12th See also:regiment on its embodiment at See also:Poona, an experience which he found to be of immense See also:advantage to him in his after career. In 1825 he was sent to See also:Khandesh, where he trained a See also:light See also:infantry See also:corps, formed of the See also:wild robber See also:Bhils, gaining over them a marvellous See also:personal See also:influence, and employing them with See also:great success in checking outrages and See also:plunder. Their See also:loyalty to him had its See also:principal source in their boundless admiration of his See also:hunting achievements, which in cool daring and hairbreadth escapes have perhaps never been equalled. Originally a " puny lad," and for many years after his arrival in See also:India subject to See also:constant attacks of sickness, Outram seemed to win strength by every new illness, acquiring a constitution of See also:iron, " nerves of See also:steel, shoulders and muscles worthy of a six-See also:foot Highlander." In 1835 he was sent to See also:Gujarat to make a See also:report on the See also:Mahi Kantha See also:district, and for some 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 he remained there as See also:political See also:agent. On the outbreak of the first Afghan See also:War in 1838 he was appointed extra aide-de-See also:camp on the See also:staff of Sir See also:John See also:Keane, and besides many other brilliant deeds performed an extraordinary exploit in capturing a banner of the enemy before See also:Ghazni. After conducting various raids against Afghan tribes, he was in, 1839 promoted See also:major, and appointed political agent in See also:Lower See also:Sind, and later in Upper Sind. Here he strongly opposed the policy of his See also:superior, Sir See also:Charles See also:Napier, which led to the See also:annexation of Sind. But when war See also:broke out he heroically defended the residency at See also:Hyderabad against 8000 Baluchis; and it was Sir C. Napier who then described him as " the See also:Bayard of India." On his return from a See also:short visit to See also:England in 1843, he was, with the See also:rank of See also:brevet See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel, appointed to a command in the Mahratta See also:country, and in 1847 he was transferred from
In 1854 he was appointed See also:resident at See also:Lucknow, in which capacity two years later he carried out the annexation of Oudh and became the first See also:chief See also:commissioner of that See also:province. Appointed in 1857, with the rank of lieutenant-general, to command an expedition against See also:Persia, he defeated the enemy with great slaughter at Khushab,-and conducted the See also:campaign with such rapid decision that See also:peace was shortly afterwards concluded, his services being rewarded by the See also:grand See also:cross of the See also:Bath.
From Persia he was summoned in See also:June to India, with the brief explanation— " We want. all our best men here." It was said of him at this time that " a See also:fox is a See also:fool and a See also:lion a See also:coward by the See also:side of Sir J. Outram." Immediately on his arrival in See also:Calcutta he was appointed to command the two divisions of the See also:Bengal See also:army occupying the country from Calcutta to See also:Cawnpore; and to the military See also:control was also joined the commissionership of Oudh. Already the mutiny had assumed such proportions as to compel See also:Havelock to fall back on Cawnpore, which he only held with difficulty, although a speedy advance was necessary to See also:save the See also:garrison at Lucknow. On arriving at Cawnpore with reinforcements, Outram, " in admiration of the brilliant deeds of General Havelock," conceded to him the See also:glory of relieving Lucknow, and, waiving his rank, tendered his services to him as a volunteer. During the advance he commanded a See also:troop of volunteer See also:cavalry, and performed exploits of great brilliancy at Mangalwar, and in the attack at the See also:Alambagh; and in the final conflict he led the way, charging through a very See also:tempest of See also:fire. The volunteer cavalry unanimously voted him the See also:Victoria Cross, but he refused the choice on the ground that he was ineligible as the general under whom they served. Resuming supreme command, he then held the See also:town till the arrival of Sir See also:Colin See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, after which he See also:con-ducted the evacuation of the residency so as completely to deceive the enemy. In the second See also:capture of Lucknow, on the See also:commander-in-chief's return, Outram was entrusted with the attack on the side of the See also:Gumti, and afterwards, having recrossed the See also:river, he advanced " through the Chattar Manzil to take the residency," thus, in the words of Sir Colin Campbell, "putting the See also:finishing stroke on the enemy." After the capture of Lucknow he was gazetted lieutenant-general. In See also:February 1858 he received the See also:special thanks of both houses of See also:parliament, and in the same See also:year the dignity of See also:baronet with an See also:annuity of £1oo0. When, on See also:account of shattered See also:health, he returned finally to England in 186o, a See also:movement was set on foot to See also:mark the sense entertained, not only of his military achievements, but of his constant exertions on behalf of the natives of India, whose " weal," in his own words, " he made his first See also:object." The movement resulted in the presentation of a public testimonial and the erection of statues in See also:London and Calcutta. He died on the 11th of See also:March 1863, and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, where the See also:marble slab on his See also:grave bears the pregnant See also:epitaph " The Bayard of India."
See Sir F. J. See also:Goldsmid, James Outram, a See also:Biography (2 vols., 188o), and L. J. Trotter, The Bayard of India (1903).
End of Article: OUTRAM, SIR JAMES (1803—1863)
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