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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Haughton    
First Name(s)  John Colpoys    
Year of Birth  1817    
Year of Death  1887    
Entry  Born Nov, 25, 1817 : son of Richard Haughton, nephew of Sir G. C. Haughton (q.v.) : educated at Shrewsbury : volunteered for the sea, 1830 : was a Midshipman, 1832-5, then invalided : entered the E. I. Co.'s Bengal Native Infantry in 1837 : in the Afghan war of 1839-42 was Adjutant of the 4th Gurkhas in Shah Shuja's force : made a gallant defence, in command, of Charikar, a town 40 m. from Kabul, Nov. 5-14, 1841, when besieged by 20,000 Afghans : severely wounded, lost a hand : reached Kabul on Nov. 16 : in captivity in Afghanistan, Jan. to Sep. 1842 : served in native infantry at Moulmain, the Andamans, in Assam, in the Khasia-Jaintia expedition, 1862-3, in the Bhutan expedition, 1864-5 : in the Garo expedition, 1872-3 : Commissioner of Cooch-Behar and Manager of the State, 1865-73 : C.S.I., 1866 : left India, 1873 : Lt-General, 1882 : died Sep. 17, 1887 : wrote an account of the occurrences at Charikar.     
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