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Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin. Sign Up. Edit Profile. Subscribe Now. Your Subscription Plan Cancel Subscription. Home India News Entertainment. Joshua Marshman. At about the same time he became a Baptist, being baptized by Mr.

John Mack at Serampore. He introduced some of his new family's missionary ideas to the army and began the distribution of bibles to all soldiers. He also introduced all-rank bible study classes and established the first non-church services for military personnel. By the time Havelock took part in the First Afghan War in , he had been promoted to the rank of captain. He was present as aide-de-camp to Willoughby Cotton at the capture of Ghazni, on 23 May , and at the occupation of Kabul.

After a short period in Bengal to secure the publication of his Memoirs of the Afghan Campaign , he returned to Kabul in charge of recruits, and became interpreter to General Mountstuart Elphinstone.

In , being attached to Sir Robert Henry Sale 's force, he took part in the celebrated passage of the defiles of the Ghilzais and in the fighting from Tezeen to Jalalabad. Here, after many months siege, his column in a sortie en masse defeated Akbar Khan on 7 April He was now made Deputy Lieutenant-General of the infantry division in Kabul, and in September he assisted at Jagdalak , at Tezeen , and at the release the British prisoners at Kabul, besides taking a prominent part at Istalif.

He used his spare time to produce analytical reports about the skirmishes and battles in which he was involved. These writings were returned to Britain and were reported on in the press of the day. For his military services he was made Deputy Adjutant-General at Bombay. He transferred from the 13th Regiment of Foot to the 39th , then as second major into the 53rd at the beginning of , and soon afterwards left for England, where he spent two years and became involved in the running of the Stepney Baptist Academy, soon to move to Regent's Park.

He returned to India in with further promotion and in he was appointed Quartermaster-General, promoted to full colonel, and lastly appointed Adjutant-General to the British Army in India in In that year, he was selected by Sir James Outram to command a division in the Anglo-Persian War , during which he was present at the action of Muhamra against the forces of Nasser al-Din Shah under command of Khanlar Mirza. Peace with Persia freed his troops just as the Indian Rebellion broke out; and he was chosen to command a column to quell disturbances in Allahabad, to support Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and Wheeler at Cawnpore, and to pursue and utterly destroy all mutineers and insurgents.

Throughout August Havelock led his soldiers northwards across Oudh present day Uttar Pradesh , defeating all rebel forces in his path, despite being greatly outnumbered. His years of study of the theories of war and his experiences in earlier campaigns were put to good use.

At this time Lady Canning wrote of him in her diary: "General Havelock is not in fashion, but all the same we believe that he will do well. Three times he advanced for the relief of the Lucknow , but twice held back rather than risk fighting with troops wasted by battle and disease. Reinforcements arrived at last under Outram, and he was able to capture Lucknow on 25 September However, a second rebel force arrived and besieged the town again. It's called Regardless of History.

A man who devoted his life to the army, Havelock served with distinction in the first Anglo-Burmese war and the first Afghan war , but his finest hour came in when, at the height of the Indian mutiny, he took command of a mobile regiment.

His force was too late and too weakened by casualties to save Kanpur, but at the fourth attempt he took Lucknow, securing a knighthood, promotion to major-general and eventually a place in Trafalgar Square. British general, conqueror and governor of Sindh, now in Pakistan. Suppressed Chartist agitation before heading to India in While negotiating an accord with the Sindhi amirs, Napier decided they were disloyal and provoked a war for which he earned a knighthood.

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