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Lawrence Nilson

Brigadier-General Lawrence Nilson (1734–1811) was an East India Company Bombay Army officer.

Military career
Nilson, then the first Chief Engineer of the Bombay Army, formed a company of Pioneer Lascars, comprising 100 men, in 1777. His company took part in the expedition to the Malabar Coast against Tipu Sultan's forces in 1782 during the Second Anglo-Mysore War. ==References==
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