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See also: English traveller and soldier, was See also: born on the 3rd of See also: March 1842, at
See also: Bedford, the son of a clergyman
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Educated at See also: Harrow and in See also: Germany, he entered the Royal See also: Horse See also: Guards in 1859
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Finding no chance for active service, his spirit of adventure sought outlets in See also: balloon-ascents and in travels through See also: Spain and See also: Russia
.
In the summer of 1874 he accompanied the Carlist forces as correspondent of The Times, but before the end of the war he was transferred to See also: Africa to report on See also: Gordon's expedition to the Sudan
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This took Burnaby as far as See also: Khartum
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Returning to See also: England in March 1875, he matured his plans for a journey on horseback to See also: Khiva through See also: Russian See also: Asia, which had just been closed to travellers
.
His accomplishment of this task, in the winter of 1875-1876, described in his See also: book A Ride to Khiva, brought him immediate fame
.
His next leave of See also: absence was spent in another adventurous journey on horseback, through Asia Minor, from See also: Scutari to See also: Erzerum, with the See also: object of observing the Russian frontier, an account of which he afterwards published
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In the Russo-See also: Turkish War of 1877, Burnaby (who soon after-wards became lieut.-colonel) acted as travelling See also: agent to the Stafford See also: House (Red See also: Cross) Committee, but had to return to England before the See also: campaign was over
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At this point began his active See also: interest in politics, and in 188o he unsuccessfully contested a seat at See also: Birmingham in the Tory-Democrat interest
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In 1882 he crossed the Channel in a balloon
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Having been disappointed in his hope of seeing active service in the See also: Egyptian campaign of 1882, he participated in the See also: Suakin campaign of 1884 without official leave, and was wounded at El Teb when acting as an intelligence officer under General See also: Valentine See also: Baker
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This did not deter him from a similar course when a fresh expedition started up the See also: Nile
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He was given a See also: post by See also: Lord Wolseley, and met his See also: death in the See also: hand-to-hand fighting of the See also: battle of See also: Abu Klea (17th See also: January 1885)
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