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[[Lieutenant General]] '''Ross Lang''' was Commander-in-Chief of the [[Madras Army]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Lang was commissioned into the [[102nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Madras Fusiliers)|Madras European Regiment]].<ref name=bio>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MEvQL8wHHngC&q=Lieutenant+General+Ross+Lang&pg=PA26|title=History of Mysore|first=Mark |last=Wilks|publisher=Hogg and Son|year=1841|page=26|isbn=9788120604919}}</ref> He commanded a battalion at the Siege of [[Madurai|Madura]] in 1763 and then, having been promoted to [[lieutenant-colonel]], he served in the [[First Anglo-Mysore War]].<ref name=bio/> He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the [[Madras Army]] in 1777, following the suspension of [[James Stuart (East India Company officer)|James Stuart]], and commanded the Army at [[Vellore]].<ref name=bio/> With the rank of [[lieutenant general]] he commanded the Madras Army again between 1783 and 1785.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2nkEiSSDaYC&q=Lieutenant+General+Ross+Lang&pg=PA548|title=Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras|first=Henry Davidson |last=Love|year=2006|publisher=Asian Educational Services, India|page=547|isbn=978-8120603202}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
In 1773 he married Anne Oats; their son, also called Ross Lang, became a [[major-general]] and died in 1822.<ref name=bio/><br />
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