Template:Infobox military person Brigadier-General Lawrence Nilson (1734–1811) was an East India Company Bombay Army officer.
Military career
Nilson, then the first Chief Engineer of the Bombay Army, formed a company of Pioneer Lascars, comprising 100 men, in 1777.[1] His company took part in the expedition to the Malabar Coast against Tipu Sultan's forces in 1782 during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.[1] He became the Commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army on 6 January 1785 before retiring from that post on 6 September 1788.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brothers in Arms, p. 2
- ↑ The India List and India Office List{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Harrison(1819)