Author: INDIA
Title: Commission for James Stewart, Esquire to hold the Rank of Captain in the Queen's Army, in the East Indies only. Signed by Hugh Gough, Commander in Chief, East Indies.
Description: 5th March 1845. Original vellum, 250 x 405 mm. seal chipped. Field Marshall Hugh Gough, Viscount Gough [1779 - 1869] had already distinguished himself in the Peninsular Wars and the First Opium War before being appointed Commander in Chief, India during which time he defeated the Marathas in the Gwalior Campaign and then the Sikhs in the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars.

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