General Sir Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar, KB was a British army officer and politician who represented Inverness Burghs in the British House of Commons from 1768 to 1802.
Portrait attributed to David Martin, 1785
Novar House
The Death of Munrow, a notorious hunting accident in India in 1792 involving Munro's son, evidently still famous in the 1820s, when this Staffordshire figure was made
Battle of Buxar
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The Battle of Buxar was fought between 22 and 23 October 1764, between the forces of the British East India Company, under the command of Major Hector Munro, against the combined armies of Shah Alam I
Detail of a portrait Hector Munro showing the battle
1894 illustration of Shah Alam II reviewing the British East India Company's troops in 1781
The Nawab of Bengal, Mir Qasim
Shuja-ud-Daula served as the leading Nawab Vizier of the Mughal Empire, he was lifelong of Shah Alam II.