biography
| name: |
Havelock (Allan), Sir Henry
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pronunciation:
[havlok]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1795–1857)
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| biography:
| British soldier, born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, NE England, UK. He studied at Charterhouse and the Middle Temple, entered the army a month after Waterloo, and went out to India in 1823. He distinguished himself in the Afghan and Sikh wars, and in 1856 commanded a division in Persia. He led the relief of Cawnpore and Lucknow (1857). |
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