James Edward Alexander

The military career

It forms initially part of the army of the Company of the Eastern Indies as from 1820, is named lieutenant in 1823 and passes to the British army in 1825.

As a assistance-of-camp of the British quota in Persia, it is pilot engagements between the Persian Empire and Russia in 1826. It is present in Balkans during the Russo-Turkish war (1828-1829). It is named captain in 1830. From 1832 to 1834, it attends the Guerre of Miquelets in Portugal, and in 1835 it takes part, as a assistance-of-camp of Sir Benjamin d' Urban.

In 1837, he marries the girl of major Mitchell, Surveyor General of the Cape of Good Hope, and is anobli in 1838 for rendered services. From 1841 to 1855 it is useful with the Canada and in the Crimea. It is named colonel in 1858. In 1862, it occupies a headquarters during the war against Maori in New Zealand. It leaves the active service in 1877 and is named general on a purely honorary basis in 1881. He played in addition in 1877 a paramount role in the transfer of one of the three obelisks of Louxor in London.

Explorer and naturalist

He joins together mineral and botanical specimens, including in particular 300 plants presented to the University of Cambridge. In 1834, it is charged by Royal Geographic Society exploring and with describing the areas of Eastern Africa located at the west of the Delagoa bay. Arrived at the Cape on board " Thalia" at the beginning of 1835, it is named assistance-of-camp and personal secretary of the governor, Sir Benjamin d' Urban. Delayed by the frontier wars, its initial objective of exploration is modified and he undertakes on September 10th, 1836 the exploration of the Western part of the territory located at the north of the Orange river. He is of return on September 21st, 1837. In the relation which it publishes in London into 1838 appear the chart of the followed route and lists it collected plants.

A plant of the family of the bignoniacées , Catophractes alexandri , was dedicated to him by the Scottish botanist David Don.

Works

Travels from India to England comprehending has visit to the Burman worsens, and has journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey in the years 1825-26 , London, Parbury, Allen, & Co, 1827
Travels through Russia and the Crimea , 1830
Transatlantic Sketches comprising visits to the most Interesting Scenes in North & South America & West Indies , 2 volumes, London, Richard Bentley, 1833
Sketches in Portugal during the Civil War off 1834 , London, J. Cochrane & Co, 1835
Narrative off has Voyage off Observation among the Colonies off Africa Western, in the Flag-Ship Thalia and off has Campaign in Kaffir-Land, one the Staff off the Order-in-Chief in 1835 . 2 volumes, London, Henry Colburn, 1837
Year Forwarding off Discovery into the Interior off Africa Through the Hitherto Undescribed Countries off the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras, Performed under the Auspices off Her Majesty' S Government and the Royal Geographic Society , 2 volumes, London, Henry Colburn, 1838
Life off Field Marshall, His Grace the Duke off Wellington, Embracing His Civil, Military, and Political Career to the Present Time , 2 volumes, London, Henry Colbourn, 1839-40
Acadie: however seven years' explorations in British America , 2 volumes, London, Henry Colburn, 1849 (see: Volume 1, Volume 2)

Passages in the life off has soldier, gold, Military service in the East and West , London, Hurst & Blackett, 1857
Salmon-Fishing in Canada by has Resident , London and Montreal, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860
Incidents off the last Maori-War in New Zealand , London, Richard Bentley, 1863
Bush Fighting , London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873
Cleopatra' S Needle, the obelisk off Alexandria , 1879

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