Robert Rollo Gillespie

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Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie (1766–1814) was a British soldier who came to India in 1804 in command of the 19th Light Dragoons. He led the troops which put down the Vellore Mutiny. He commanded the advance column in the Java Expedition in 1811 and led one of the four columns in the Gurkha War. He was killed leading the attack on the fort at Kalunga in 1814.

External links

Rollo Gillespie Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906)
Rollo Gillespie Wikipedia