John Nicholson
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Brigadier-General John Nicholson, was an Ulster-Scot officer who rose to prominence during his career in British India.
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The British camp outside Kabul in 1842, where Nicholson was released from six months of Afghan imprisonment
A portrait of John Nicholson as he would have appeared in his role as a political officer on the North-West Frontier
A clean-shaven John Nicholson in an engraving of his only known photograph, taken while he was on leave in January 1852
Nicholson led his troops to a significant victory over the sepoy army at the Battle of Najafgarh.
Lieutenant Frederick Roberts finding the mortally wounded General Nicholson by the Kashmir Gate during the Siege of Delhi in 1857
John Nicholson statue in the grounds of the Royal School, Dungannon, Northern Ireland
Nicholson's Obelisk at the Margalla Pass, PakistanAbout this person
Brigadier-General John Nicholson, was an Ulster-Scot officer who rose to prominence during his career in British India. Born in Ireland, Nicholson moved to the Indian subcontinent at a young age and obtained a commission in the Bengal Army where he spent the majority of his career helping to expand the East India Company's territories in numerous conflicts, including the First Anglo-Afghan War, the First Anglo-Sikh War, and the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Nicholson created a legend for himself as a political officer under Henry Lawrence in the frontier provinces of British India, especially in the Punjab, and he was instrumental in the establishment of the North-West Frontier. Nicholson's most defining moment in his military career was his crucial role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a conflict in which he died.
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