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3 unusual facts about Charles Augustus Murray


Charles Augustus Murray

While stationed in Egypt, he arranged the transport of Obaysch the hippopotamus to England in 1850.

Murray spent several years travelling across Europe and America from 1835 and 1838, including several months with a Pawnee tribe in 1835.

Murray's heavy-handed attitude inflamed an existing dispute over Hashim Khan, one of the Shah's bodyguards and an officer in the Persian army, who took up a position as secretary in the British embassy against the wishes of the Shah and his prime minister.



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