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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 | Nicholson | | | First Name(s) | John | | | Birth Year | 1821 | | | Death Year | 1857 | | | Entry | Son of Dr. Alexander Nicholson : born Dec. 11, 1821 : his mother's brother, (Sir) James Weir Hogg (q.v.), obtained for him an appointment in the Bengal Infantry : reached Calcutta, 1839 : went to Afghanistan with the 27th N.I. in 1840, to Jalalabad, Kabul, Ghazni, where he was, with Colonel Palmer's force, besieged in Dec. 1841 : made prisoner in April, 1842 : sent to Kabul in Aug. and released in Sep. : in the Satlaj campaign, in the commissariat at Firozshahr : sent to instruct the troops of the Maharaja of Kashmir : Assistant to Sir Henry Lawrence at Lahore : in the Panjab campaign of 1848-9, seized Attock and the Margalla Pass : at Chilianwala and Gujarat, and in the pursuit of the Sikhs : Deputy Commissioner under the Panjab Board of Administration : at Bannu, 1851-6 : he was ""a tower of strength,"" Lord Dalhousie said : the natives regarded him as a demigod and worshipped him as Nikkul Seyn : Brevet-Lt- Colonel, 1854 : Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar in 1857 : succeeded (Sir) N. B. Chamberlain (q.v.), in command, as Brig- General of the Panjab movable column, to Delhi : disarmed suspected native regiments : cut off rebels at Trimmu Ghat and on the Ravi river : reached Delhi, Aug. 14, 1857 : commanded in the action of Najafghar, Aug. 25 : at the storming of Delhi, Sep. 14, he commanded the main storming party : shot through the chest, in the street fights : mortally wounded : lingered till Sep. 23 : buried near the Kashmir gate of Delhi : his death deplored as a public misfortune : opinions are unanimous of his qualities for command : his great physique, his fearlessness, decision, judgment, forethought, energy : trusted and followed anywhere by his men : noble, tender and kind, but stern to evil : would have been K.C.B. had he lived. |
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