Grant, SIR JAMES HOPE

Grant, SIR JAMES HOPE, general, brother to Sir Francis, was born at Kilgraston, Perthshire, 22d July 1808. He first saw service in the Chinese war of 1842, and next distinguished himself at Sobraon, Chillianwalla, and Gujerat in the two Sikh wars. During the operations of the Indian Mutiny Grant, who had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, took a leading part, assisting in the recapture of Delhi (20th September), in the relief of Cawnpore, and in the retaking of Lucknow, and he commanded the force which effected the final pacification of India. In 1859 he conducted the war against China, defeating the enemy three times under the walls of Pekin, assaulting the Taku forts, and finally capturing the capital of the empire, for which work he was created G.C.B. After commanding the army of Madras from 1861 to 1865, he returned to England, and was made general in 1872. He died in London, 7th March 1875. From his journals appeared Incidents in the Sepoy War of 1857-58 (1883) and Incidents in the China War of 1860 (1875), edited by Col. H. Knollys, who also published a Life of him (2 vols. 1894).