biography
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| (1799–1871)
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| biography:
| US soldier and adventurer, born in Newlin Township, Pennsylvania, USA, the brother of Richard Harlan. During 17 years in the Far East (1823–41), he was a Bengal Artillery medical officer, secret agent in Afghanistan, and Punjabi governor, and told his story in A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun [sic] (1842). He was a Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and afterwards a San Francisco physician. |
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