John Hessing
John Hessing was a military officer who served in the armies of the Maratha Empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.Biography
Hessing commanded 3000 Maratha regular troops in the Battle of Kardla, where the Maratha armies defeated the Nizam of Hyderabad on 12 March 1795. In June 1801 Hessing commanded four battalions outside Ujjain, which were attacked and defeated by Yashwantrao Holkar, the Maratha ruler of Indore. Hessing fought with the Maratha armies against the British in the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He died in Agra on 21 July 1803 while in command of the Maratha forces there.Tomb
Hessing's tomb is located in the Padretola, or Padresanto, a Christian cemetery in Agra. The tomb was commissioned by John Hessing's wife, Alice:
