Major-General Claude Martin was a French army officer who served in the French and later British East India companies in colonial India. Martin rose to the rank of major-general in the British East India Company's Bengal Army. Martin was born in Lyon, France, into a humble background, and was a self-made man who left a substantial lasting legacy in the form of his writings, buildings and the educational institutions he founded posthumously. There are now ten schools named after him, two in Lucknow, two in Calcutta and six in Lyon. The small village of Martin Purwa in India was also named after him.
Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (born 1735)
On September 13, in the year 1800, Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (born 1735). This event is recorded as a Notable Deaths event in the history of September 13, one of 462 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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