biography
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Grant, James Augustus
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1827–92)
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| biography:
| British soldier and explorer, born in Nairn, Highland, N Scotland, UK. Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he joined the British army, eventually reaching the rank of colonel, and saw service in the Battle of Gujerat, the Indian Mutiny, and in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868. He is best known as a colleague of John Hanning Speke, with whom he explored the sources of the Nile (1860–3), keeping a record of significant geographical features and native customs which he published as A Walk Across Africa (1864). |
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