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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
| Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surnames | Gardner | | | First Name(s) | Alexander Haughton | | | Year of Birth | 1785 | | | Year of Death | 1877 | | | Entry | Adventurer : Colonel : born 1785, in N. America, son of a Doctor, a Scotch -emigrant : educated for 9 years at St. Xavier, Mexico : was 5 years in Ireland : left America, 1812 : travelled to Lisbon, Madrid, Cairo, Trebizond, Astrakhan, Astrabad, Herat (1819), to near Khiva, Astrakhan, across the Caspian and Aral Seas, near Uratube, Kunduz, Anderab, to Afghanistan : took service under Habibulla Khan, nephew of the Amir Dost Muhammad (q.v.), engaged in the fights tween them : after Habibulla's flight in 1826, Gardner wandered, through Kafir - istan, Badakshan, Shighnan, among the Kirghiz, to Yarkand, Leh, Srinagar, Gilgit, Chitral, Kabul, Kandahar (1830), Girishk (imprisioned for 9 months), to Kabul, to Dost Muhammad, to Bajour, Peshawar, Lahore (1832), where he joined Ranjit Singh's service, as Colonel of Artillery : engaged in campaigns, in Bannu, against the Afghans (1835), etc. : commanded the Jammu artillery : after Ranjit Singh's death (1839), Gardner shared in the fighting about the succession and was at Lahore when the first Sikh war against the British was declared : but was given no active part in either Sikh war : was exiled from Lahore : entered Golab Singh's service in Jammu-Kashmir (1846), and remained there till he died at Jammu, Jan. 22, 1877 : buried at Sealkot : in his old age was visited by high officers. |
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