John Caillaud

John Caillaud
Born(1726-02-05)5 February 1726
Dublin, Ireland
DiedDecember 1812(1812-12-00) (aged 86)
Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire
Military career
Allegiance Kingdom of Great Britain
Branch
British Army
Rank
Brigadier General
CommandsIndian Army
Conflicts
Jacobite rising
Seven Years' War

Brigadier-General John Caillaud (5 February 1726 – December 1812) was Commander-in-Chief, India.

Military career

Caillaud was commissioned into Onslow's Regiment in 1743. In 1746, during the Jacobite rising, he took part in the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden. In 1752 he was made a captain in the Madras Army. During the Seven Years' War he was involved with skirmishes with the French.

In 1759 he was made Commander of the Bengal Army. Edmund Burke later claimed that, during the course of the Bengal War, Caillaud had set three official seals to a document expressing an intent to kill Ali Gauhar, the Mughal Crown Prince, allegations that Caillaud strongly denied.

He subsequently became Commander of the Madras Army in which capacity he negotiated a treaty with Nazim Ali which guaranteed Nazim Ali military support in return for occupation of the Northern Circars by the East India Company. He is "reputed to have made 60,000 pagodas as negotiator of a 1767 treaty with the Nizam of Hyderabad".

In 1775 he retired to Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire and died in December 1812.

Family

In 1763 he married Mary Pechell: they had no children.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Caillaud, John (1726–1812), army officer in the East India Company". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Lawson, Philip; Phillips, Jim (1984). ""Our Execrable Banditti": Perceptions of Nabobs in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain". Albion. 16 (3). Cambridge University Press: 225–241. doi:10.2307/4048755. hdl:1807/138674. JSTOR 4048755. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  3. ↑ Royal Collection. Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine