Oakes Captain Henry (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. From the 28th of April, 1783, the day of Capitulation, to their enlargement on the 25th of April, 1784, after near twelve months confinement under a continued series of unrelenting Acts of Cruelty. Also, an account of those who perished during the above period, by Captain Henry Oakes, Adjutant General to the Army under the command of General Mathews. To which is added an appendix, relative to the conduct of the British Forces, upon their first becoming masters of that place by Lieutenant John Charles Sheen. First Edition, 8vo. vii [1] 93pp. rebound quarter boards. Excellent Copy with half title. Scarce.…

1st Ed. Thin 8vo. vii,[1],93,[1]p. Half title present. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, light browning, title page spotted and sl. soiled, ESTC No.T111563.Sir Henry Oakes second baronet (17561827), army officer in the East India Company. '. was appointed a second lieutenant in the Bombay army on 18 May 1775. Thereafter he saw extensive service in India, serving in Gujarat in 17756, in the Poona expedition of 1778, and at the sieges of Tellicherry, Onore, Mangalore, and Bednur in 178081. He was adjutant-general of General Mathew's force, which on 28 April 1783 surrendered at Bednur, where he was taken prisoner by Tipu Sultan of Mysore. After his release in 1784 the Madras government made him captain-commandant of a sepoy battalion on 10 June 1784 .'The appendix by Alieutenant Sheen '. includes a number of additional interesting circumstances . as it elucidates the cause of Tippoo Saib's cruelty to our people. His conduct was evidently founded upon Principles of retaliation; and Candor must acknowledge that the unjustifiable behaviour of the Company's Army goes a considerable way in justification of that of the enemy.' Advertisement. Interestingly Oakes went insane towards the end of his life and committed suicide by shooting himself with his pistol. US$371.…