Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, KCB CSI

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Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, KCB CSI

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Birthplace: Stenay, Meuse, France
Death: September 03, 1879 (38)
Kabul, Afghanstan (Killed in mob rising)
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Husband of Mercy Emma Cavagnari

Occupation: Army Officer
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About Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, KCB CSI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Louis_Napoleon_Cavagnari
Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari KCB CSI (4 July 1841 – 3 September 1879) was a British soldier and military administrator.

Cavagnari was the son of Count Louis Adolphus Cavagnari, of an old family from Parma in the service of the Bonaparte family, by his marriage in 1837 with an Anglo-Irish woman, Caroline Lyons-Montgomery. Cavagnari was born at Stenay, in the Meuse département, France, on 4 July 1841. He was killed on 3 September 1879 during the siege of the British Residency (then at Bala Hissar) in Kabul in Afghanistan.


Major Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari
The Peerage #523909,
Born on 4 July 1841 in France
Son of Comte Benoit Jean Baptis Louis Cavagnari and Caroline Anne Lyons-Montgomery.
Died in 1879 at British Residency, Kabul, Afghanistan, killed in action.1
Ensign in the 1st Bengal Fusiliers.
Fought in the Indian Mutiny in 1858.
Assistant-Commissioner in the Punjab in 1861.
Appointed Companion, Order of the Star of India (C.S.I.) in 1877, and Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.)
https://www.thepeerage.com/p52391.htm#i523909


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Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, KCB CSI's Timeline

1841
July 4, 1841
Stenay, Meuse, France
1879
September 3, 1879
Age 38
Kabul, Afghanstan