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 Death Announcements 1731-1831

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Date transcribed2000-00-00
Transcribed bySteve van Dulken

Surname  Forbes    
First names  David    
Rank/ occupation  Governor    
Unit  Banda    
Death date  1816    
Place of death  Banda    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  1816 Suppl. Part I    
Page number  638    
Detail  ABROAD. At Banda, East Indies, a victim in the prime of life (aged 36) to the fever so prevalent there, after serving his country 17 years, David Forbes, esq. governor of that Island, second son of the late Geo. Forbes, esq. of Aberdeen. In the successful attack by land in Aug. 1810, upon the Dutch Island of Tanatte by the British commanded by this gallant officer, he so eminently distinguished himself, that he received the thanks of the Government of India.    
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