Record ID:
49860690 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • nr 93012921
Heading:
Used for:
  • Caillaud, John, d. 1810
Notes:
  • Data provided by the ESTC/BL
  • His A narrative of what happened in Bengal, in the year MDCCLX, 1764 (name not given)
  • ESTC/BL files (John Caillaud)
  • DNB (Caillaud, John, d. 1810; brigadier-general, arrived in India from Europe with a detachment of 247 British soldiers in 1753, and having shortly afterwards taken part in an engagement with the French in the neighborhood of Trichinopoly. From that time until 1775, when he retired from the service and returned to England, Caillaud was a prominent actor in the struggle which ended in the establishment of the British power in India; 1759 he held for a time the command of the company's troops in Madras, and in the same year he was appointed to command the troops in Bengal. In the following year he was actively employed in repelling an invasion of Behar by the eldest son of the emperor of Delhi)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)880056
Cataloguing source:
  • Uk/ESTC-NA eng ESTC-NA AKIN:NBD rda