Anthony Pohlmann

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Anthony Pohlmann was a

Hanoverian soldier who served in the armies of the British East India Company and Gwalior State.[1]

Life

Pohlmann arrived in India as a sergeant in a Hanoverian regiment serving the East India Company in

.

He served under the French mercenary

Rajah of Berar absented themselves before the battle.[2] He re-entered service with the East India Company as a lieutenant colonel in 1804.[1]

Fiction

Anthony Pohlmann is a significant character in Bernard Cornwell's historical novels Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Trafalgar.

References

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  2. ^ Compton, Herbert (1892). A particular account of the European military adventures of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 381–382.