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'''Anthony Pohlmann''' was a [[Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Hanoverian]] soldier who served in the armies of the British [[East India Company]] and [[Daulat Scindia]].<ref name="Millar">{{cite book| last=Millar |first=Simon |title=Assaye 1803: Wellington's First and 'Bloodiest' Victory | url=https://archive.org/details/assayewellington00mill | url-access=limited |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] | location= Oxford |year=2006 |isbn=1-84603-001-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/assayewellington00mill/page/n15 16]–17}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Pohlmann arrived in India as a sergeant in a Hanoverian regiment serving the East India Company in [[Madras]]. He deserted his regiment in 1792 or 1793 and took employment in the army of the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha]] prince Daulat Scindia.<br />
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He served under the French mercenary [[Benoît de Boigne]], who promoted him to captain in 1794. By 1795, he was in command of a [[battalion]] of infantry, serving alongside the [[Anglo-Indian]] military adventurer [[James Skinner (soldier)|James Skinner]]. In early 1799, [[Pierre Cuillier-Perron]] – who superseded de Boigne as the overall commander of Scindia's troops – promoted Pohlmann to colonel and gave him command of Scindia's second [[brigade]]. Pohlmann was instrumental at defeating the Rajput armies of Jodhpur and Jaipur at the [[Battle of Malpura]]. At the [[Battle of Assaye]] in 1803, Pohlmann effectively commanded all the regular battalions in the Maratha army, after Scindia and the [[Raghoji II Bhonsle|Rajah of Berar]] absented themselves before the battle.<ref>{{cite book| last=Compton |first=Herbert |authorlink=Herbert Eastwick Compton |title=A particular account of the European military adventures of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803 |publisher=[[T. Fisher Unwin]]| location= London |year=1892 |pages=381–382}}</ref> He re-entered service with the East India Company as a lieutenant colonel in 1804.<ref name="Millar"/><br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Anthony Pohlmann is a significant character in [[Bernard Cornwell]]'s historical novels ''[[Sharpe's Triumph]]'' and ''[[Sharpe's Trafalgar]]''.<br />
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