John Caillaud
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| birth_date =5 February 1726
| death_date =December 1812
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| birth_place =Dublin, Ireland
| death_place =Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire
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| branch =British Army
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| rank =Brigadier General
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| commands =Indian Army
| battles =Jacobite rising
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}}{{Short description|Commander-in-Chief, India}}
Brigadier-General John Caillaud (5 February 1726 – December 1812) was Commander-in-Chief, India.
Military career
Caillaud was commissioned into Onslow's Regiment in 1743.{{Cite web |title=Caillaud, John (1726–1812), army officer in the East India Company |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4334 |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |language=en}} In 1746, during the Jacobite rising, he took part in the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden. In 1752 he was made a captain in the Madras Army. During the Seven Years' War he was involved with skirmishes with the French.
In 1759 he was made Commander of the Bengal Army. Edmund Burke later claimed that, during the course of the Bengal War, Caillaud had set three official seals to a document expressing an intent to kill Ali Gauhar, the Mughal Crown Prince, allegations that Caillaud strongly denied.
He subsequently became Commander of the Madras Army in which capacity he negotiated a treaty with Nazim Ali which guaranteed Nazim Ali military support in return for occupation of the Northern Circars by the East India Company. He is "reputed to have made 60,000 pagodas as negotiator of a 1767 treaty with the Nizam of Hyderabad".{{cite journal | title = "Our Execrable Banditti": Perceptions of Nabobs in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain | journal = Albion | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date= 1984 | first1= Philip | last1= Lawson | first2 = Jim | last2= Phillips | doi = 10.2307/4048755 | access-date =24 November 2024 | volume =16 | issue = 3 | pages = 225–241 | jstor = 4048755 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/albion/article/abs/our-execrable-banditti-perceptions-of-nabobs-in-mideighteenth-century-britain/6BDEC01F21FE45C4DE5F7AA168ED8704 | url-access = subscription }}
In 1775 he retired[http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?category=ABMINIATURES&object=100233&row=3356&detail=about Royal Collection]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401013917/http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?category=ABMINIATURES&object=100233&row=3356&detail=about|date=2012-04-01}} to Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire and died in December 1812.
Family
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Category:British Commanders-in-Chief of India
Category:British East India Company Army generals
Category:British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745