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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mackenzie    
First Name(s)  Colin    
Birth Year  1806    
Death Year  1881    
Entry  Lt-General : born March 25, 1806 : son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie : educated at Dublin and at Oswestry : joined the 48th Madras N.I., 1825 : in the Coorg campaign, 1834, at the taking of Merkara : in the Straits of Molucca, 1836 : in 1840, Assistant Political Agent at Peshawar : went to Kabul : led Sale's returning force as far as Gandamak, and returned to Kabul : present at the conference at which Macnaghten was killed : escaped : was selected as one of the hostages to Akbar Khan : he was called ""the Moollah"" on account of his religious character : sent down on dangerous missions from Kabul to Jalalabad and back : after release, he joined in the attack on Istalif, Sep. 29, 1842 : raised and commanded a Sikh regt. on the frontier during 1848-9 : slighted by Lord Ellenborough, he was highly regarded by Lord Dalhousie : C.B. : made Brig-General in Hyderabad contingent : in a mutiny in 1855 at Bolarum against his orders, he was dangerously wounded : Government blamed his action : made A.G.G. at Murshidabad : Superintendent of Army Clothing : left India, 1873 : died Oct. 22, 1881.     
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