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2 unusual facts about Robert Warburton


Robert Warburton

While serving with the transport train he showed great tact in conciliating native feeling and received the thanks of Sir Robert Napier for his services.

Able to converse fluently with the learned in Persian and with the common folk in the vernacular Pushto, he succeeded, by his acquaintance with tribal life and character, in gaining an influence over the border Afghans which has never been equalled.



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