The rest of the officers and men were killed or drowned, and the women and children who escaped were carried off as prisoners.] [Footnote 4: Permanent occupiers of the land, either of the landlord class, as in Bengal, Oudh, and the North-West Provinces, or of the yeoman class, as in the Punjab.] [Footnote 5: Afterwards General Lord Sandhurst, G.C.B., G.C.S.I.] [Footnote 6: The Dilkusha house was built at the beginning of the century by a king of Oudh as a hunting-box and country residence, and close to it he cleared away the jungle and laid out a large park, which he stocked with herds of deer and other game.] [Footnote 7: The Martiniere was built by Claude Martin, a French soldier of fortune, who came out to India, under Count de Lally, in the stirring days of 1757.

In 1761 he was taken prisoner by the English at Pondicherry and sent to Bengal.

After the conclusion of the war he enlisted in the English Army, and on attaining the rank of Captain he got permission to attach himself to the Court of the King of Oudh, where he soon obtained supreme influence, and became to all practical purposes Prime Minister.

He remained an officer of the East India Company's Service, and at the time of his death held the rank of Major-General.

He amassed a large fortune, and by his will founded colleges at Lucknow, Calcutta, and Lyons, the place of his birth.