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Ross Lang

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Allegiance
  
Great Britain

Rank
  
Lieutenant General

Battles and wars
  
First Anglo-Mysore War

Service/branch
  
East India Company

Battles/wars
  
First Anglo-Mysore War

Commands held
  
Madras Army

Lieutenant General Ross Lang was Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army.

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Military career

Lang was commissioned into the Madras European Regiment. He commanded a battalion at the Siege of Madura in 1763 and then, having been promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he served in the First Anglo-Mysore War. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army in 1777, following the suspension of James Stuart, and commanded the Army at Vellore. With the rank of lieutenant general he commanded the Madras Army again between 1783 and 1785.

Family

In 1773 he married Anne Oats; their son, also called Ross Lang, became a major-general and died in 1822.

References

Ross Lang Wikipedia