Major-General Augustus Abbott was an army officer in the British East India Company. Abbott was the brother of Frederick Abbott and James Abbott Born in London the son of a retired Calcutta merchant, he was educated at Winchester College and at the East India Company's military college at Addiscombe. In 1819 he went to India, as second lieutenant, and by 1835 had been made captain. He then served with distinction in the First Anglo-Afghan War from 1838 to 1842, … Wikipedia
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