Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari
1841–79
French-born soldier and administrator. Became a naturalised British citizen in 1857. Joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1858 and went to India. Served in the First Bengal European Fusiliers in the Oudh campaign, 1858–9. Assistant commissioner, Punjab, 1861. Administered Kohat district, 1866–7. Deputy commissioner, Peshawar, 1867. A supporter and protegé of the viceroy to India, Lord Lytton, and an advocate of the domination of Afghanistan. Following a British victory over Afghan forces in 1879, negotiated the treaty of Gandamak and was appointed resident British envoy in Kabul. Died in an attack on the embassy during a mutiny. Knighted, 1879.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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