Louis Cavagnari
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Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari was a British soldier and military administrator.
Cavagnari sitting with a group of Afghan tribesmen.
Mohammad Yaqub Khan with British officers in May 1879
Queen's Own Corps of Guides Memorial, Cavagnari's Arch in Mardan
Corps of Guides (India)
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The Corps of Guides was a regiment of the British Indian Army made up of British and Indian officers, plus Indian cavalry sowars and infantry sepoys, primarily intended for service on the North West F
Louis Cavagnari
…his residence in July 1879. On 3 September 1879, Cavagnari and the other European members of the mission, along with their guards who were made up of The Guides, were killed after he refused the demands of mutinous Afghan troops. Cavagnari married in 1871 Mercy Emma Graves. After her husband′s death, Lady…
c. 1908 illustration of the Corps of Guides
Corps of Guides Infantry, 1897.