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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Cavagnari    
First Name(s)  Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon    
Year of Birth  1841    
Year of Death  1879    
Entry  Lt-Colonel : son of General Adolphe Cavagnari : born July 4, 1841, educated at Christ's Hospital and Addiscombe : was naturalized in 1857 : entered the E. I. Co.'s Army, 1858 : in the Oudh campaign in the mutiny : joined the Staff Corps, 1861, and the Panjab Commission as an Assistant Commissioner : had charge of the Kohat district, 1866 to 1877, and, as Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar, accompanied several frontier expeditions, 1868- 78 : C.S.I, in 1877 : he was a member of Sir N. Chamberlain's mission to Shir Ali, in'the autumn of 1878, when it was stopped at Ali Masjid by the Amir's officer. When Yakub Khan had become Amir, on the death of Shir Ali, Major Cavagnari negotiated the treaty of Gandamak with him, May 26, 1879: K.C.B. He was appointed Resident at Kabul and was residing, from July, 1879, at the Bala Hissar in Kabul, when the Afghan troops rose, attacked his residence, and he and his staff were all killed, Sep. 3, 1879.     
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