John Caillaud

John Caillaud
Born	5 February 1726 Dublin, Ireland
Died	December 1812 Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire
Allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
Service / branch	British Army
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands	Indian Army
Battles / wars	Jacobite rising Seven Years' War

Brigadier-General John Caillaud (5 February 1726 – December 1812) was Commander-in-Chief, India.

Military career

Caillaud was commissioned into Onslow's Regiment in 1743.[1] In 1746, during the Jacobite rising, he took part in the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden. In 1752 he was made a captain in the Madras Army. During the Seven Years' War he was involved with skirmishes with the French.[1]

In 1759 he was made Commander of the Bengal Army.[1] Edmund Burke later claimed that, during the course of the Bengal War, Caillaud had set three official seals to a document expressing an intent to kill Ali Gauhar, the Mughal Crown Prince, allegations that Caillaud strongly denied.[1]

He subsequently became Commander of the Madras Army in which capacity he negotiated a treaty with Nazim Ali which guaranteed Nazim Ali military support in return for occupation of the Northern Circars by the East India Company.[1] He is "reputed to have made 60,000 pagodas as negotiator of a 1767 treaty with the Nizam of Hyderabad".[2]

In 1775 he retired[3] to Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire and died in December 1812.[1]

Family

In 1763 he married Mary Pechell: they had no children.[1]

References

1. "Caillaud, John (1726–1812), army officer in the East India Company". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
2. Lawson, Philip; Phillips, Jim (1984). ""Our Execrable Banditti": Perceptions of Nabobs in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain". Albion. 16 (3). Cambridge University Press: 225–241. doi:10.2307/4048755. JSTOR 4048755. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
3. Royal Collection. Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine

Military offices
Preceded by Robert Clive	Commander-in-Chief, India 1760	Succeeded by John Carnac