Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c27.6
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c27.6
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PEARSE, Thomas Deane (d. 1789), colonel, author of Chapter IV and supplementary note to Chapter I, was born about 1738, was appointed second lieutenant Royal Artillery on 24th October 1761 and was transferred to the East India Company’s service in February 1768. In India he was high in the favour of Warren Hastings, and acted as Hasting’s second in his duel with Sir Philip Francis on 17th August 1779. Pearse died on the Ganges on 15th June 1789.