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• PIERRE

PIERRE

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• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

LOUIS

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• NAPOLEON

NAPOLEON

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• SIR PIERRE LOUIS NAPOLEON CAVAGNARI (1841–1879)

CAVAGNARI (1841–1879)  , British military administrator, the son of a French general by his marriage with an Irish lady, was born at Stenay, in the department of the Meuse, on the 4th of July 1841 . He nevertheless obtained naturalization as an Englishman, and entered the military service of the East India Company . After passing through the college at Addiscombe, he served through the Oudh campaign against the mutineers in 1858 and 1859 . In 1861 he was appointed an assistant commissioner in the Punjab, and in 1877 became deputy commissioner of Peshawar and took part in several expeditions against the hill tribes . In 1878 he was attached to the staff of the British mission to Kabul, which the Afghans refused to allow to proceed . In May 1879, after the death of the amir Shere Ali, Cavagnari negotiated and signed the treaty of Gandamak with his successor, Yakub Khan . By this the Afghans agreed to admit a British resident at Kabul; and the post was conferred on Cavagnari, who also received the Star of India and was made a K.C.B . He took up his residence in July, and for a time all seemed to go well, but on the 3rd of September Cavagnari and the other European members of the mission were massacred in a sudden rising of mutinous Afghan troops .