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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 was ADC to [[Willoughby Cotton|General Sir Willoughby Cotton]] in the [[1st Afghan War]]. He took part in [[General Sale's March from Kabul to Jalalabad]] and the subsequent siege. In the [[Gwalior Campaign]] he was Persian interpreter to [[Hugh Gough|Sir Hugh Gough]] and served in both the [[1st Sikh War]] and the [[2nd Sikh War]]. He rose to Quartermaster-General and then Adjutant-General to the British Army in India. After commanding a division in the [[Persian War]], [[Havelock's Campaign]] proved him a great military leader during the [[Indian Mutiny]]. He achieved the [[First Lucknow Relief]] but was in turn besieged and died of dysentery shortly after the town was freed.
== External links ==
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/314/mode/1up James Neill] ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (1906)<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Smith_Neill James Neill] Wikipedia<br />
==== Historical books on-line ====
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YzkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage The Life of General H. Havelock KCB] Google Books<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UvgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Memoirs+of+Major-General+Sir+Henry+Havelock+(1860)&ei=0YqhR57UMI-oiQGMj_S2Cg#PPP11,M1 Memoirs of Sir Henry Havelock] Google Books<br>
[[Category:British Military commanders|Neill, James]]
[[Category:People|Neill, James]]
where he ruthlessly crushed the mutineers.
He was ADC to [[Willoughby Cotton|General Sir Willoughby Cotton]] in the [[1st Afghan War]]. He took part in [[General Sale's March from Kabul to Jalalabad]] and the subsequent siege. In the [[Gwalior Campaign]] he was Persian interpreter to [[Hugh Gough|Sir Hugh Gough]] and served in both the [[1st Sikh War]] and the [[2nd Sikh War]]. He rose to Quartermaster-General and then Adjutant-General to the British Army in India. After commanding a division in the [[Persian War]], [[Havelock's Campaign]] proved him a great military leader during the [[Indian Mutiny]]. He achieved the [[First Lucknow Relief]] but was in turn besieged and died of dysentery shortly after the town was freed.
== External links ==
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/314/mode/1up James Neill] ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (1906)<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Smith_Neill James Neill] Wikipedia<br />
==== Historical books on-line ====
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YzkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage The Life of General H. Havelock KCB] Google Books<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UvgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Memoirs+of+Major-General+Sir+Henry+Havelock+(1860)&ei=0YqhR57UMI-oiQGMj_S2Cg#PPP11,M1 Memoirs of Sir Henry Havelock] Google Books<br>
[[Category:British Military commanders|Neill, James]]
[[Category:People|Neill, James]]
