Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal OrganizationBuckle, E. (Edmond)
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Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal Organization
Buckle, E. (Edmond)
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947; India -- History, Military; India. Army. Bengal Artillery
Witherington, Capt. 5
Wittit, Lieut. 121, 122, 123, 124;
Capt. 150;
Major, 170, 244
—— C. Capt. 245, 260, 266
Wood, Lieut. J. 7;
Capt. 183
—— H. Lieut. 334;
Capt. 385;
Lieut.-Col. 500, 504, 507, 514, 518
Woodburn, Lieut. 88;
Major, 127, 150, 166, 176;
Lieut.-Col. 204, 212
Woodroofe, Capt. 385
Worthington, J. G. Lieut. 554
Young, J. Lieut. 260, 272, 284;
Lieut.-Col. 343
FOOTNOTES:
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Footnote 1:
_Calcutta Review._
Footnote 2:
There were probably some perquisites or other sources of emolument.
Footnote 3:
The following was copied from an inscription in charcoal, on the wall
of a small mosque on the declivity of a hill, about a mile from
Chunar, and the same distance from the Ganges, in October, 1780:—
“This is the place of confinement of Ann Wood, wife to Lieutenant John
Wood, taken prisoner by Jaffir Beg, Commandant to Sir Roger Dowler,
taken out of the house at Calcutta where so many unhappy gentlemen
suffered; the said Jaffir Beg obtained promotion of Segour Dowler for
his long service, Fouzdar of Chunar Gur.”
“I, Alexander Campbell, was taken, along with the unfortunate lady, at
eleven years old, by the same persons who afterwards made me an
eunuch; my only employment was to attend this lady, which I did in
this place four years. 1762, May 3rd, the said Jaffir Beg sent to
acquaint the lady that if she did not consent to live with him the 4th
of the said month, she should be strangled, and by my hands. The 3rd,
at midnight, we jumped out of this window and got to the river side,
where I hired boat for fifty gold rupees, to carry us safe to
Chinsurah, where we arrived on the 11th. The first news we heard was
that Lieutenant Wood died for grief; soon as she heard this, she fell
sick, and died the 27th of the month.”
“Mr. Drake behaved with the greatest imprudence, he did deserve to be
shot! shot! shot!
“Alexander Campbell, I am now in Dowlah’s service.”
“N.B.—Mrs. Wood’s apartment, and which is all the house consists of,
is 9 feet 5 inches by 8 feet 9 inches, and 7 feet 9 inches high; the
window, 18 inches.”
“Mrs. Bowers was a young woman, and inhabitant of Calcutta when it was
taken by the Moors in the year ——, where upwards of —— British
subjects were confined in the dungeon; she concealed herself until
night in one of the warehouses in the factory, from whence she made
her escape on board a small vessel lying in the river opposite the old
fort.”—_Hickey’s Gazette_, 1780.
Neither of these names is mentioned by Holwell.
Footnote 4:
It is probable that Captain (afterwards Sir R.) Barker was in this
vessel; he was transferred from the Royal to the Bengal Artillery, but
appears to have been employed in line commands, and never to have
joined the regiment.
Footnote 5:
This man was afterwards a member of council, and a bitter opponent of
Clive.
Footnote 6:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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