James Neill

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Brigadier-General James George Smith Neill (1810-1857) was a British soldier who went to India in 1827 to join the 1st Madras (European) Fusiliers with whom he served in the 1st Burma War. After a spell in the Crimea he returned to India in 1857 shortly before the Indian Mutiny broke out. Neil left Madras for Benares where he ruthlessly crushed the mutineers. He then moved to Allahabad where he relieved the besieged garrison.

External links

James Neill Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906)
James Neill Wikipedia

Historical books on-line

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