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Joseph Smith

British army officer in the East India Company

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Joseph Smith

British army officer in the East India Company

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Occupation: military officer
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: 1733
Died: 1790

Notable quotes

“You will meet and become acquainted with your eternal Mother, the wife of your Father in Heaven… How could a Father claim His title unless there were also a Mother to share that parenthood?”
— Joseph Smith, n. d. (before his death on June 27, 1844), according to a reminiscence by Zina Diantha Huntington Young reported in Susa Young Gates, History of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1911), 16.

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Overview

Brigadier General Joseph Smith (1732/3–1790) was an officer of the British East India Company's army in the mid-18th Century who served in the Carnatic Wars, the Anglo-Mysore Wars and other conflicts in South India. He served with distinction and rose to the position of commander-in-chief of the Madras Army on three occasions (1767-1770, 1770–1772, and 1773–1775). Smith's father of the same name was an officer of engineers in the EIC forces and Smith followed him into Company service, joining the Madras forces in 1749 and quickly gaining independent commands and rising through the ranks. References 1732 births 1790 deaths British East India Company Army generals

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