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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Chavasse | | | First names | William | | | Rank/ occupation | Officer | | | Unit | EIC | | | Death date | 19 Jul 1814 | | | Place of death | River Tigris  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Nov 1814 | | | Page number | 498 | | | Detail | On his journey to the East Indies by land, aged 29, William Chavasse, esq. an officer in the Company's service. He came to England to impart to the Board of Admiralty an invention of his on the Longitude; returned in the Spring for India, and was joined by Capt. Macdonald, the bearer of public dispatches, at Constantinople. They too fatally resolved, instead of performing their journey to India by the accustomed route, to explore, from their over-sanguine ardour, the tract described by Xenophon on his return with his retreating army. By this they experienced many hardships on their way, were imprisoned in a dungeon by a Kurdish Chief, at a place called Ingra, not far from Bagdad, and ransomed themselves by paying 800 piastres. The unfortunate Chavasse was seized with a brain fever on their liberation. His friend and fellow-traveller put him on a raft on the River Tigris, to reach Bagdad the sooner, for medical assistance; but he died on the raft, almost in sight of the city, and was buried by him in a retired spot on the banks of the River Tigris. |
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