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BOIGNE, BENOIT DE, COUNT (1751-1830)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 139 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BOIGNE, BENOIT DE, COUNT (1751-1830) , the first of the French military adventurers in India, was born at
Chambery
  in Savoy on the 8th of
March
  1751, being the son of a fur merchant. He joined the Irish Brigade in France in 1768, and subsequently he entered the Russian service and was captured by the Turks. Hearing of the wealth of India, he made his way to that country, and after serving for a short time in the
East
  India Company, he resigned and joined Mahadji Sindhia in 1784 for the purpose of training his troops in the European methods of war. In the battles of Lalsot and Chaksana
Boigne
  and his two battalions proved their worth by holding the field when the rest of the Mahratta army was defeated by the Rajputs. In the battle of
Agra
  (1788) he restored the Mahratta fortunes, and made Mahadji Sindhia undisputed master of Hindostan. This success led to his being given the command of a brigade of ten battalions of infantry, with which he won the victories of
Patan
  and Merta in 1790. In consequence
Boigne
  was allowedto raise two further brigades of disciplined infantry, and made
commander
 -in-
chief
  of Sindhia's army. In the battle of Lakhairi (1793) he defeated Holkar's army. On the death of Mahadji Sindhia in 1794, Boigne could have made himself master of Hindostan had he wished it, but he remained loyal to Daulat Rao Sindhia. In 1795 his health began to fail, and he resigned his command, and in the following year returned to Europe with a fortune of 400,000. He lived in retirement during the lifetime of
Napoleon
 , but was greatly honoured by Louis XVIII. He died on the Zest of June 1830.
See H. Compton, European Military Adventurers of Hindustan (1892).


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