 Disappointed that the command of the large contingent of the nizam was given to the then Colonel Arthur Wellesley, and that after the capture of the fortress the same officer obtained the governorship, Baird felt he had been treated with injustice and disrespect.He later received the thanks of parliament and of the Honourable East India Company for his gallant bearing on that important day, and a pension was offered him by the Company, which he declined, apparently in the hope of receiving the Order of the Bath from the government.General Baird commanded an Anglo-Indian expeditionary that had been raised in Bombay early 1801 to co-operate with Sir Ralph Abercromby in the expulsion of the French from Egypt.