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Alexander Burnes

1805–1841 · 19th century

Alexander Burnes was a Scottish officer and explorer in the service of the East India Company. His journey through Afghanistan to Bukhara in 1831–1833, described in his best-selling Travels into Bokhara, made him famous. He was political officer at Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War and was killed by a mob there in November 1841.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Alexander Burnes. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/alexander-burnes
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