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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Foulis | | | First names | David | | | Rank/ occupation | Major General & Sir |  | Unit | Madras Establishment | | | Death date | 12 Apr 1843 | | | Place of death | Edinburgh  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Edition | Aug 1843 | | | Page number | 204 | | | Detail | [Pages 204-205. At Bruntsfield Lodge, Edinburgh, aged 74. Arrived in India in 1789, an Ensign in 1790. In numerous battles. Impaired health caused him to sail for England, July 1803. In July 1805 he returned overland via ""Denmark, Vienna, the Black Sea to Constantinople, across the Bosphorus to Sentara in Turkey, by Boli, Amaria, Mardin, Drarbekeir, Mosul and Bagdad; sailing down the Tigris to Bussorah; down the Euphrates to Bashier; down the Persian Gulf to Muscatt, and crossing the Arabian Sea to Bombay. He was twice cast on shore on the Persian side by a leaky Arab ship. In April 1807 Captain Foulis was appointed General Agent for the purchase of remount horses for the Madras Cavalry. In Aug. 1809 he again returned to England in bad health, by way of China, Brazil, and the United States of America.""] |
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