c5c6fea75a Outram did his best to impress on the new governor-general the inadvisability of retiring from Afghanistan without first reasserting the power of the government at Kabul. Cambridge University Press.. A Suppressed Despatch from Lieut.-colonel Outram to A. iv. Outram could not acquiesce in the censure, and his bold and generous advocacy of Hammersley's cause brought him under the displeasure of the authorities.
Immediately on his arrival in Calcutta he was appointed to command the two divisions of the Bengal army occupying the country from Calcutta to Cawnpore; and to the military control was also joined the commissionership of Oudh. 18504. Reed (1975) ^ "The History of Addiscombe and the H.O.M.E Roads". On 10 March he strengthened his position, repelled the attack of the enemy, and kept up the fire of his batteries upon the Kaisar-bgh and main street. He arrived in Bombay on 15 Aug., and was temporarily posted to the 4th native infantry, with rank as ensign from 2 May 1819. On the institution of the order of the Star of India in 1861, Outram was one of the first to receive the honour of K.S.I. v. Westminster Abbey: History: Sir James Outram . Outram was given the local rank of lieutenant-general, and invested with diplomatic powers. was given command of two divisions of the Bengal army occupying the country from Calcutta to Cawnpore inclusive, while he was also made chief commissioner of Oudh in succession to Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence [q.
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