John Caillaud

{{Short description|Commander-in-Chief, India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person | name =John Caillaud | image = | caption = | birth_date =5 February 1726 | death_date =December 1812 | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place =Dublin, Ireland | death_place =Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | allegiance ={{flag|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | branch =British Army | service_years = | rank =Brigadier General | unit = | commands =Indian Army | battles =Jacobite rising<br />Seven Years' War | awards = | relations = | other_work = }} Brigadier-General '''John Caillaud''' (5 February 1726 – December 1812) was Commander-in-Chief, India.

==Military career== Caillaud was commissioned into Onslow's Regiment in 1743.<ref name="odnb">{{Cite web |title=Caillaud, John (1726–1812), army officer in the East India Company |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4334 |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |language=en}}</ref> In 1746, during the Jacobite rising, he took part in the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden. In 1752 he was made a captain in the Madras Army. During the Seven Years' War he was involved with skirmishes with the French.<ref name=odnb/>

In 1759 he was made Commander of the Bengal Army.<ref name=odnb/> Edmund Burke later claimed that, during the course of the Bengal War, Caillaud had set three official seals to a document expressing an intent to kill Ali Gauhar, the Mughal Crown Prince, allegations that Caillaud strongly denied.<ref name=odnb/>

He subsequently became Commander of the Madras Army in which capacity he negotiated a treaty with Nazim Ali which guaranteed Nazim Ali military support in return for occupation of the Northern Circars by the East India Company.<ref name=odnb/> He is "reputed to have made 60,000 pagodas as negotiator of a 1767 treaty with the Nizam of Hyderabad".<ref>{{cite journal | title = "Our Execrable Banditti": Perceptions of Nabobs in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain | journal = Albion | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date= 1984 | first1= Philip | last1= Lawson | first2 = Jim | last2= Phillips | doi = 10.2307/4048755 | access-date =24 November 2024 | volume =16 | issue = 3 | pages = 225–241 | jstor = 4048755 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/albion/article/abs/our-execrable-banditti-perceptions-of-nabobs-in-mideighteenth-century-britain/6BDEC01F21FE45C4DE5F7AA168ED8704 | url-access = subscription | hdl = 1807/138674 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>

In 1775 he retired<ref>[http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?category=ABMINIATURES&object=100233&row=3356&detail=about Royal Collection]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401013917/http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?category=ABMINIATURES&object=100233&row=3356&detail=about|date=2012-04-01}}</ref> to Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire and died in December 1812.<ref name=odnb/>

==Family== In 1763 he married Mary Pechell: they had no children.<ref name=odnb/>

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