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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Dutch-born officer in Maratha service (1739–1803)}}<br />
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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = John Hessing<br />
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| birth_date = 5 November 1739<br />
| death_date = {{dda|1803|7|21|1739|11|5}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Utrecht]], [[Netherlands]]<br />
| death_place = [[Agra]], India<br />
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| allegiance = [[Maratha Empire]]<br />
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| serviceyears = Unknown – 1803<br />
| rank = Colonel<br />
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| battles = [[Battle of Kharda]]<br />
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Colonel '''John William Hessing''' (5 November 1739<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95761|title=The Calcutta Review No. 267, 268(January, April)1912|last=Not Available|date=1912}}</ref> – 21 July 1803) was a Dutch military officer who served in the armies of the [[Maratha Empire]] in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Hessing commanded 3,000 Maratha regular troops in the [[Battle of Kharda]], where the [[Maratha Army|Maratha armies]] defeated the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]] on 12 March 1795. In June 1801 Hessing commanded four battalions outside [[Ujjain]], which were attacked and defeated by [[Yashwantrao Holkar]], the Maratha ruler of [[Indore]]. Hessing served in the Maratha armies against the [[East India Company]] in the [[Second Anglo-Maratha War]].{{fact|date=January 2021}}<br />
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Due to ill health, he resigned his command of four battalions in 1800, being succeeded by his son, George Hessing, who was then 18.<br />
He took instead a position as Commandant of [[Agra Fort]], and died in [[Agra]] on 21 July 1803 while in command of the Maratha forces there.{{fact|date=January 2021}}<br />
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==Tomb==<br />
[[File:Red Taj Tomb of John Hessing.jpg|thumb|The "Red Taj Mahal", the tomb of John Hessing]]<br />
John Hessing's tomb is located in the Padretola, or Padresanto, a Christian cemetery in Agra. The tomb was commissioned by Hessing's wife, Anne:<br />
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:The tomb of John Hessing, hard by, is a still more splendid edifice, being a copy, in red sandstone, of the famous [[Taj Mahal]], and on a pretty extensive scale too, though far smaller than the original. The tomb, which was completed in or about the year of the British conquest, bears an inscription in good English, setting forth that the deceased colonel was a Dutchman, who died Commandant of Agra, in his 63rd year, 21 July 1803, just before [[Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake|Lake]]'s successful siege of the place.*<br />
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==References==<br />
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*[[Henry George Keene (1826–1915)|Keene, H. G.]] (1887) ''The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan.''<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.panoramio.com/photo/39361282 ''Red Taj: Tomb of Col John Hessing''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517094641/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/39361282 |date=17 May 2017 }}<br />
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