Anthony Pohlmann
Anthony Pohlmann was a
Life
Pohlmann arrived in India as a sergeant in a Hanoverian regiment serving the East India Company in
Maratha prince Daulat Scindia
.
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
- ^ ISBN 1-84603-001-3.
- ^ Compton, Herbert (1892). A particular account of the European military adventures of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 381–382.