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Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.

* March 31 – British expedition to Tibet – Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.

* August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet.

* September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.

* Francis Younghusband

* Sir Francis Younghusband The Epic of Mount Everest, 1926, Edward Arnold & Co.

According to Francis Younghusband, who explored the region in the late 1880s, there was only an abandoned fort and not one inhabited house at Shahidulla when he was there-it was just a convenient staging post and a convenient headquarters for the nomadic Kirghiz.

The British suspected Russian involvement " with the Rulers of the petty States on the northern boundary of Kashmir ;" In 1888 the Russian Captain Bronislav Grombchevsky visited Hunza, and the following year the British Captain Francis Younghusband visited Hunza to express British displeasure at Kanjuti raids in the Raskam.

In 1891, Russia sent a military force to the Wakhan and provoked a diplomatic incident by ordering the British Captain Francis Younghusband to leave Bozai Gumbaz in the Little Pamir.

At the end of 1903, Curzon sent a British expedition to Tibet under Francis Younghusband, ostensibly to forestall a Russian advance.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE ( 31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset ) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

Francis Younghusband was born in 1863 at Murree, British India ( now Pakistan ) to a British military family, being the second son of Major-General John W. Younghusband and his wife Clara Jane Shaw.

* Younghusband, Sir Francis The Epic of Mount Everest ( ISBN 0-330-48285-8, reprint 2001 ).

* Younghusband, Sir Francis Modern Mystics ( ISBN 1-4179-8003-6, reprint 2004 ).

* Works of Francis Younghusband at Project Gutenberg

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