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General Sir Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar, KB (1726 – 27 December 1805) was a Scottish army officer and politician who served as the ninth Commander-in-Chief of Bengal from 1764 to 1765. (en) Hector Munro, 8.º laird de KB (1726 - 27 de diciembre de 1805) fue un noble escocés y general británico, 9.º (1764-1765). (es) Hector Munro, 8e laird van (Sutherland, 1726 - , 27 december 1805) was een Schots militair in dienst van de Britse East India Company. In 1764 en 1765 was hij opperbevelhebber van de Britse strijdkrachten in India. Hij is bekend wegens de overwinning in de slag bij Buxar (1764) en de inname van Negapatam (1781). (nl) Sir Hector Munro (Hector Munro af Novar), född 1726 i Cromarty, Skottland, död 27 december 1805, var en brittisk general, riddare av Bathorden, son till . Munro lät värva sig i Brittiska armén 1749 och transporterades 1761 till Bombay sedan han fått fullmakt som befälhavare över 89. regementet i Indien; samma år mottog han fransmännens kapitulation i Mahé. I egenskap av befälhavara över Bengaliska armén slog han ner ett sepoymyteri i Patna, och 23 oktober 1764 vann han vid Buxar över , nawab av Oudh, och vid . Han återvände till hemlandet 1768 och invaldes i underhuset för valkretsen Inverness Burghs, ett mandat han sedan höll i drygt 30 år, trots att han tillbringade större delen av denna tid i Indien. Indien återvände han till 1778 som befälhavare över armén i Madras och lagom för Andra anglo-mysoreanska kriget. Under detta krig tog han Pondicherry från fransmännen, men tappade 1780 mot Haider Ali i ett slag nära Conjeeveram, vilket tvingade honom att dra sig tillbaka till Madras och St. Thomas's Mount, och överlämna befälet till sir Eyre Coote. När sir Eyre Coote 1781 vann mot Haider Ali vid Porto Novo förde Munro befälet över högerflanken. Munro kunde själv inta Negapatam i november samma år. Han kom åter till hemlandet 1782. (sv) |
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