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William Baillie

d. 1782 · 18th century

William Baillie (died 1782) was a Scottish officer of the British East India Company's Madras army. In September 1780, at the start of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, his detachment was surrounded and destroyed by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan at Pollilur, one of the Company's heaviest defeats in India. Baillie was taken prisoner and died in captivity at Srirangapatna in 1782.

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