Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet

Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet GCB KSI ( born January 29, 1803 in Butterley Hall in Ripley, Derbyshire, † March 11, 1863 in Pau) was a British general and son of Benjamin Outram.

Outram joined in 1819 as a cadet in the army of the British East India Company and took 1838-1840 in the First Anglo-Afghan War. He was a British agent in Sindh and in 1847 to the court of Gaekwar of Baroda. The openness of its occurrence to various measures of the East Indian government prompted his removal from Baroda.

He then went to England, but later returned to India, where he was in 1854 a resident of Lucknow. In 1856 he finished the annexation of Awadh in 1857 and commander in chief of the British army in the war against Persia. Outram won at Khushab on February 8, 1857, he captured on March 26 Mohamera, whereupon Persia asked for peace. Then Outram was raised to the baronet. He played a major role in the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857. At the retaking of Kanpur he was not involved. He met, however, in September 1857 and brought significant gain with. On 18 September, he broke out of there to free the besieged garrison town of Lucknow. The high command he left free and the first attempt to liberate Lucknow, had won several decisive victories in a gallant gesture Sir Henry Havelock, the Kanpur. The British troops suffered during the advance on Lucknow such heavy losses that they could not evacuate the besieged garrison. Instead, they defended in June, together with the enclosed upon persons the garrison until mid-November, troops under the command of Sir Colin Campbell was able to liberate the city. James Outram was then a member of the highest government authority in Kolkata ( Calcutta ), after the Government of India Act 1858, the rule of the British East India Company ended on the Indian subcontinent and British India was a crown colony. However, he returned in 1860 to England.

Publications

  • Notes of the campaign in Scinde and Afghanistan. London 1840.
  • The Conquest of Scinde. London 1846.
  • Baronet
  • Military person (United Kingdom)
  • Person ( British India )
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
  • Knight Companion of the Order of the Star of India
  • Briton
  • Born in 1803
  • Died in 1863
  • Man
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