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Name: Hector Hugh Munro  
   
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Date of Birth: 18th December 1870
   
Place of Birth: Akyab, Burma
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Sir Hector Munro (1726 - December 27, 1805), was a British military leader.

The son of Hugh Munro of Novar, in Cromarty, Scotland, he entered the army in 1749. He went to Bombay in 1761, in command of the 89th regiment, and in that year effected the surrender of Mah from the French. Later, as commander of the Bengal army, he suppressed a mutiny of sepoys at Patna, and on October 23, 1764 won the victories of Buxar against Shuja-ud-Dowlah, the nawab wasir of Oudh, and Mir Kasim, which ranks amongst the most decisive battles ever fought in India.

Returning home, he was elected, in 1768, as member of parliament for the Inverness Burghs, which he continued to represent for over thirty years, though much of this period was spent in India, where he returned in 1778 to take command of the Madras army. In that year he took Pondicherry from the French, but in 1780 he was defeated by Hyder Ali near Conjeeveram, and forced to fall back on St Thomas's Mount.

There Sir Eyre Coote took command of the army, and in 1781 won a major victory against Hyder All at Porto Novo, where Munro was in command of the right division. Negapatam was taken by Munro in November of the same year; and in 1782 he retired to England.


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