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The second immediate reason was the presence in Kabul in 1837 of a Russian agent, Captain P. Vitkevich, who was ostensibly there, as was the British agent Alexander Burnes, for commercial discussions.

When Sir Alexander Burnes traversed the country in 1832, Merv belonged to the Khanate of Khiva.

He was impressed with the growing importance of a knowledge of central Asia, in the event of a Russian advance towards the Indian frontier, and despatched Alexander Burnes to explore the district.

As a political agent at Kabul he came into conflict with the military authorities and subsequently with his subordinate Sir Alexander Burnes.

Rejecting overtures from Russia, he endeavoured to form an alliance with Great Britain, and welcomed Alexander Burnes to Kabul in 1837.

Sir Alexander Burnes in the Costume of Bokharra

Captain Sir Alexander Burnes, FRS ( 16 May 1805 – 2 November 1841 ) was a Scottish traveller and explorer who took part in The Great Game.

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* in Afghanistan, a kingdom entitled to a gun salute of 21 guns ( the highest rank among princely states, not then among Sovereign monarchs ): the first British Residents were Sir Alexander Burnes ( 1837 – 2 November 1841 ); William Hay McNaghten ( 7 August 1839 – 23 December 1841 ); Eldred Pottinger ( December 1841 – 6 January 1842 ). After that, four native Vakils acted on behalf of the British government: Nawab Foujdar Khan ( 1856 – April 1859 ), Ghulam Husain Khan Allizai ( April 1859 – 1865 ), Bukhiar Khan ( February 1864 – January 1868, acting ), Attah Muhammad Khan Khagwani ( January 1868 – 1878 ); then there were two more British Residents Louis Napoleon Cavagnari ( 24 July 1879 – 3 September 1879 ), Henry Lepel-Griffin ( 1880 ); next came two Military Commanders ( 8 October 1879 – 11 August 1880 ) and until 1919 ten native British Agents, one of whom served two non-consecutive terms.

In November 1841, a senior British officer, Sir Alexander ' Sekundar ' Burnes, and his aides were killed by a mob in Kabul.

Illustration by Alexander Burnes ( 1833 )

Warburton's date of birth would indicate that the wedding ( invalid according to Islamic law ) is likely to have taken place precisely around the time of the massacre of Sir Alexander Burnes in November, 1841.

* Night of the Long Knives, the assassination of Alexander Burnes in November 1841 in Kabul, Afghanistan

In 1831 Lieutenant ( later Captain ) Sir Alexander Burnes of the East India Company's service was deputed by the British Government to gather information in the countries lying between India and the Caspian.

Alexander Burnes and Mohan Lal led an expedition to Central Asia in 1832-4 for procuring political and military intelligence, and became firm friends.

Many of the collections were sent by Alexander Burnes.

Sir Alexander Burnes in his Travels into Bokhara, which he published in 1835, speaking of the Afghans said: " The Afghans call themselves Bani Israel, or the children of Israel, but consider the term Yahoodi, or Jew, to be one of reproach.

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The name Night of the Long Knives was later used for a violent political purge in Nazi Germany, as well as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's dismissal of seven members of his cabinet and also the assassination of Alexander Burnes in November 1841 in Kabul, Afghanistan.