OCHTERLONY, SIR DAVID

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OCHTERLONY, SIR DAVID , Bart. (17581825), British genera], was born at Boston, Mass., U.S.A., on the 12th of February 1758, and went to India as a

cadet

CADET (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. capitettum, a diminutive of caput, head, through the Provencal form capdet)

in 1777. He served under Lord Lake in the battles of Koil, Aligarh and Delhi, and was appointed

resident

RESIDENT

at Delhi in 1803. In 1804, having been promoted to the rank of major-general, he defended the city with a very inadequate force against an attack by Holkar. On the outbreak of the Nepal War (181415) he was given the command of one of four converging columns, and his services were rewarded with a baronetcy in 1815. Subsequently he was promoted to the command of the main force in its advance on Katmandu, and outmanoeuvring the Gurkhas by a flank

march

at the Kourea Ghat Pass, brought the war to a successful conclusion and obtained the signature of the treaty of Segauli (1816), which dictated the subsequent relations of the British with Nepal. For this success

Ochterlony

OCHTERLONY, SIR
DAVID

was created G.C.B., the first time that honour had been conferred on an officer of the Indian army. In the Pindari War (181718) he was in command of the Rajputana column, made a

separate

SEPARATE

agreement with Amir

Khan

KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

, detaching him from the

Pindaris

PINDARIS

, and then, interposing his own force between the two main divisions of the enemy, brought the war to an end without an engagement. He was appointed

resident

RESIDENT

in Rajputana in 1818, with which the residency at Delhi was subsequently combined. When Durjan Sal revolted in 1825 against Balwant Singh, the infant Raja of Bharatpur,

Ochterlony

DAVID
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acting on his own responsibility supported the raja by proclamation and ordered out a force to support him. Lord Amherst, however, repudiated these proceedings. Ochterlony, who was bitterly chagrined by this rebuff, resigned his office, and retired to Delhi. The feeling that the confidence which his length of service merited had not been given him by the

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

-general is said to have accelerated his death, which occurred at Meerut on the 15th of July 1825. The Ochterlony column at Calcutta commemorates his name.
See Major Ross of Bladensburg, The Marquess of Hastings (" Rulers of India "

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

) (1893).

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