Sir David Ochterlony

Commanded the column that faced Amar Singh Thapa. Where Gillespie and Martindell assaulted forts and lost men, Ochterlony advanced methodically and detached the hill chiefs from the Gorkhas by promising restoration — a promise the sanads of 1815 kept.

He took Ramgarh and then Malaun, accepted Amar Singh Thapa's capitulation, and shaped the settlement that made the hill states British-protected states.