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JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 113 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858) , Indian soldier and
administrator
 , was born on the zsth of January 1812, educated at Addiscombe, and entered the Bombay artillery in 1828. He served, in the first Afghan War under Sir John
Keane
 , and afterwards led his
regiment
  with distinction at the battles of Meeanee, Shandadpur, and Umarkot; but it is as commandant of the Sind
Horse
  and political superintendent of Upper Sind that he was chiefly famous. He was the pacificator of the Sind frontier, reducing the tribes to quietude as niuch by his commanding personality as by his ubiquitous military
measures
 . In 1853 he foretold the Indian Mutiny, saying: " There is more danger to our Indian
empire
  from the state of the Bengal army, from the feeling which there exists between the native and the European, and thence. spreads throughout the length and breadth of the
land
 , than from all other causes combined. Let government look to this; it is a serious and most important truth "; but he was only rebuked by Lord
Dalhousie
  for his pains. He was a friend of Sir Charles Napier and Sir James Outram, and resembled them in his out-spoken criticisms and independence of authority. He died at the early age of 46 of brain fever, brought on by excessive heat and overwork. The town of Jacobabad, which has the reputation of being the hottest place in India, is named after him.
See A. I. Shand, General John Jacob (1900).


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