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[[Major]] '''William Henry Carmichael-Smyth''' (30 July 1780 – 9 September 1861) was a [[British people|British]] military officer in the service of the [[East India Company]].

==Biography==
He was born in [[England]] in 1780. His father was [[James Carmichael Smyth (physician)|James Carmichael Smyth]], a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[physician]] and he was educated at [[Charterhouse School]].

In 1797, at the age of seventeen, he was commissioned into the [[Bengal Artillery]]. On arriving in [[Bengal]] that same year he was deployed on a military expedition to the [[Philippines]]. When the expedition was abandoned he returned from [[Penang]] and served in [[Allahabad]]. In 1803 the [[Second Anglo-Maratha War]] broke out, and he was present at the battles of [[Siege of Aligarh|Aligarh]], [[Battle of Delhi (1803)|Delhi]] and [[Battle of Laswari|Laswari]]. In May 1804 he accompanied a force against Rampoora, and later served at the [[Battle of Deeg]] and [[Siege of Deeg]] where he was mentioned in dispatches.<ref>Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. p. 60</ref> In 1805 he was present at the [[Siege of Bharatpur]] and after it was abandoned he was made garrison engineer at [[Agra]]. The following year in 1806 he directed the attack on [[Gohad|Gohud]]. He returned to [[England]] in 1807 due to ill health.<ref>Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. p. 60</ref>

Carmichael-Smyth returned to India in 1810 as a captain, and served in the [[Invasion of Java (1811)|Invasion of Java]] in 1811. Thereafter he returned to Bengal and went to [[Kalinjar Fort|Callinger]] as a field engineer where he was mentioned in dispatches for exemplary valour in 1812. He subsequently was deployed on surveys before he was selected to assist in a campaign against [[Alwar]]. Following the campaign he returned to his position as garrison engineer at Agra where he would remain until 1819.<ref>Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. p. 61</ref> During the [[Anglo-Nepalese War]] between 1814 and 1816 he served in all the operations under [[David Ochterlony|Sir David Ochterlony]]. In February 1817 he assisted in the reduction of [[Hathras]]. That same year he joined the army of [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings|Lord Hastings]] in the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]].<ref>Vibart, H.M. (1894). Addiscombe: its heroes and men of note. Westminster: Archibald Constable. p. 61</ref> On 13 March 1817 at [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]] he married Anne Thackeray, the widow of Richmond Thackeray, and became step-father to a young [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]. He returned to England in 1820 and was elevated to Major in 1821.

In 1822 he was appointed Resident Superintendent at [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|East India Company Military Seminary]] in [[Addiscombe]]. He remained in the post until he was succeeded by [[Robert Louis Houston|Robert Houston]] on 6 April 1824. He died in [[Ayr]], [[Scotland]] on 9 September 1861.<ref>James Grant Wilson, Frederick Stoever Dickson, Thackeray in the United States, Volume 1, Ardent Media, 1904, p.200</ref>

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