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'''Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE (1863 – 1942)''' was a British Army officer, explorer, and writer. He was born in [[Murree]] but educated in England and commissioned in the [[1st Dragoon Guards|1st King's Dragoon Guards]]. He explored Manchuria, crossed the Gobi Desert and pioneered a route from Kashgar to India. In 1889 he explored north of Ladakh in the Karakoram mountains. In 1895 he was the Times special correspondent in the [[Chitral Campaign]]. In 1903-1903 he led the British [[Tibet Expedition]]. He wrote several books on spiritual subjects.
== External links ==
[http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofindi00buckuoft#page/463/mode/1up Sir Francis Younghusband] ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (1906)<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Younghusband Francis Younghusband] Wikipedia<br />
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