Dear Bosham: Many thanks for your response. I am beginning to get this same feeling and ask myself as to whether this man really existed!! My inability to trace this man even in the Presidency Lists of Army personnel gives me the feeling that things do not seem very right. He could not have been total blacked out of the records. And if so for what reason?? If the British thought of him as a hero then why have they never mentioned him in their records? There is mention of a Capt Stewart with Duff: * History of the Maharathas: James Grant Duff: : vol 2: Chapter 12 : page 244 onwards: Bombay: Printed at the Exchange Press, Fort: 1863. This may reflect what Duff had picked up from the then existent records. * I have also another reference to him in a Bombay Presidency gazette note mentioning him. I will have to check this out again.** On the UK side I have thought that the name Stewart may suggest a Scottish origin and have checked the name and date out with the Black Watch regiment whose archivist came out with no answers!! ** I should like to contact Col Anil Athale. Would you have his email address or his postal address? *I have been told of Kincaid's book and will explore that also.* ** I intend to peruse this till I am able to have some answers. With Warren Hastings at the helm of things at that time it is possible that the recording of history was quite vitiated. Hastings was none too happy about the Treaty of Wadegaon and eventually had Carnac among others dismissed for having signed this Treaty. And Carnac was no small man in the British military hierarchy!! Thank you for your time. Sincerely John* * * * -- John Dr. John A.Thomas,MD,FRCPath, FAMS