SIR

See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES

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• EDWARD

EDWARD

See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• SIR JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER (1803—1885)  , British soldier and traveller, was born on the 16th of October 1803 . He joined the East India Company's army in 182o, transferring into the British army in 1825 . As aide-de-camp to the British envoy to Persia, he was an eye-witness of the fighting in the war between Persia and Russia (1826), and in 1829 was present in the Balkans during the Russo-Turkish war . In 1832—1834 he was in Portugal during the Miguelete war, and in 1835 served in the Kaffir war in South Africa as aide-de-camp to Sir Benjamin D'Urban . Subsequently he conducted an exploring expedition into Namaqualand and Damaraland, and was knighted for his services (1838) . From 1841 to 1855 he served in Canada, proceeding thence to the Crimea, and in 1862 held an important command in New Zealand during the Maori war . He retired from the service in 1877, and in 1881 was given the honorary rank of general . He was largely responsible for the preservation and transfer to England of Cleopatra's Needle in 1877 . His varied experiences provided material for a large number of books, among which were Travels from India to England (1827) ; Trans-atlantic Sketches (1833); An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa (1838) ; Passages in the Life of a Soldier (1857) ; Incidents of the Maori War (1863) . He was also the author of a Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington (184o) . He died on the 2nd of April 1885 .