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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Madec | | | First Name(s) | Rene | | | Birth Year | 1736 | | | Death Year | 1784 | | | Entry | Born at Quimper in Brittany, Feb. 7, 1736, of poor parents : began life as a sailor : in 1748 went out to India as a recruit in the service of the French E.I. Co. : soon wearied of this : deserted, and joined the French troops at Pondicherry : taken prisoner by the English at Jinji, on the Coromandel coast : consented, with many of his companions, to serve in the English Army in Bengal : after several years a mutiny among the troops afforded them a chance of escape : Madec was chosen captain by his comrades ; gradually collected a body of troops, both Frenchmen and Sepoys, and from 1765 to 1777 pursued a brilliant career as a guerilla leader and adventurer : served thus under various native princes, but always under the French flag, and never losing sight of the interests of his country in India : was in the service of Shuja-uddaula, Nawab of Oudh, till his defeat by the English at Baxar, when he passed over to the Jats : took service in 1772 under the Mogul Emperor : performed many brave deeds and was granted many honours : made a Nawab of the first class. After the siege of Delhi by the united forces of the Mahrattas and the Jats, and the defeat of the Emperor, Madec rejoined his countrymen at Pondicherry, and took part in its defence against the English : after its capitulation he left India (1778), returned to France, where he died, worn out by all his many hardships, in 1784. |
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