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Lawrence Nilson

Field	Value
name	Lawrence Nilson
image	Lawrence Nilson.jpg
caption	painting by George Romney, 1791
birth_date	1734
death_date	1811
placeofburial_coordinates
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch	Bombay Army
rank	Brigadier-General
commands	Bombay Army
battles	Second Anglo-Mysore War

Brigadier-General Lawrence Nilson (1734–1811) was an East India Company Bombay Army officer.

Military career

Nilson, then the first Chief Engineer of the Bombay Army, formed a company of Pioneer Lascars, comprising 100 men, in 1777. His company took part in the expedition to the Malabar Coast against Tipu Sultan's forces in 1782 during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.

References

[http://www.bsakirkee.org/SIKHLIBombaySappers24Aug11.pdf Brothers in Arms, p. 2]
Great Britain India Office. (1819). "The India List and India Office List". Harrison.

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