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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surnames | Goddard | | First Name(s) | Thomas | | Year of Birth | 1740? | | Year of Death | 1783 | | Entry | Grandson of Thomas Goddard, Canon of Windsor : at Madras with his regiment under Coote, 1759-61 : at the capture of Pondicherry, Jan. 16, 1761 : in the 84th regt. in the Bengal campaign, 1763 : joined the Bengal Army : raised Goddard's ""battalion"" of sepoys at Murshidabad in 1764 : served in quelling the mutiny at Patna, 1766 : at capture of Burrareah, near Chapra, 1770 : and against the Mahrattas in Rohilkund, 1772 : in command at Berhampur, 1774 ' and of the contingent at Lucknow, 1776 : commanded, in succession to Colonel Leslie, the Bengal contingent which marched across India to aid the Bombay Army against the Mahrattas, 1778-81 : took Mhow : Ahmadabad on Feb. 15, 1780 : defeated Sindia : captured Bassein, Dec. 11, 1780 : threatened Poona : Goddard was compelled to retreat : treaty with Sindia, Oct. 1781 : Brig-General : appointed C. in C. of the Bombay Army : retired for ill-health : died at sea, off the Land's End, July 7, 1783. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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