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of everyone within the walls. As a result of her influence, Ochterlony considered raising his children as
Muslims, and when his two daughters by Mubarak Begum had grown up, he adopted a child from the family of the Nawabs of Loharu, one of the leading Muslim families of Delhi. Raised by Mubarak, the girl went on to marry her cousin, a nephew of the famous
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Peregrine Ochterlony, of Delhi (1785-d by 1823), his only son; he married 1808 Sarah Nelly, the daughter of Lt. Col. John Nelly of the Bengal Engineers, at Allahabad, India. Roderick and Sarah Ochterlony had three children. A daughter, Charlotte Ochterlony, died in 1835 (death mentioned in
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Charles Metcalfe Ochterlony, 2nd Baronet (1817–1891), who succeeded his grandfather by special remainder in 1825. He married in 1844 a Miss Sarah Tribe of Liverpool, and had as descendants three sons and two daughters. This creation became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1964.
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British and the Mughals alike. She offended the British by calling herself "Lady Ochterlony" and on the other hand, also offended the Mughals by awarding herself the title
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Generalee Begum, fills the papers with accounts of the
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in 1814 he was given the command of one of four converging columns. His was regarded as the only truly successful column throughout the war. He was subsequently promoted to the command of the main force in its advance on
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he was wounded and taken prisoner by the forces of Haidar Ali. He remained in captivity for the duration of the war and was only released when peace resumed in 1784. Thereafter, he returned to
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