Oliver Nicolls | |
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Born | c.1740 |
Died | 1829 |
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Rank | General |
Commands held | Bombay Army |
General Oliver Nicolls (c.1740 - 1829) was a British Army officer.
Military career[]
Nicolls was commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Foot in November 1756.[1] He became Quartermaster-General in the West Indies in 1794, in which capacity he subdued a rebellion in Grenada.[1] He became Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army on 22 January 1801 retiring from that post in 1808[2] to become a member of the Board of Inquiry into the Convention of Sintra under which the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict.[3] He went on to serve as Governor of the Island of Anholt in 1813.[4]
He was also colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot and then the 66th Regiment of Foot.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Richard Cannon, Historical record of the Life Guards containing an account of the formation of the corps in the year 1660 and of its subsequent services to 1835, p. 135
- ↑ Great Britain India Office (1819). The India List and India Office List. I. Harrison. p. 127. http://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=toc. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- ↑ The Inquiry, p. 12
- ↑ Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
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