Browne, Major James Eighteenth Century Officer and Writer James Browne was born about the year 1744 and joined the East India Company’s army in 1765 as a cadet at the age of 21. He was ...
Avitable, Paolo Crescenzo Martino Administrator of Wazirabad (1791-1850) A Neapolitan soldier of fortune who, starting life as a private gunner, succeeded in obtaining high ranks in two widely separated Asiatic armies of Persia and Punjab, ...
Auckland, George Eden Earl of Auckland, Governor-General of India (1784-1849) Governor-General of India, son of William Eden, First Baron of Auckland, was born at Eden Farm, near Beckenham, in Kent, in August 1784. He was ...