Henry Richard Abadie
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Major-General Henry Richard Abadie, CB (25th March 1841 - 9th May 1915) was a British Army officer.
Abadie joined the army in 1858 and served in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia. In 1879 Abadie fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War including the Battle of Kandahar. He was with the 9th Lancers and commanded the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury from 1894-1897
From 1899 to 1900 he commanded the British Military Eastern District, during which he was promoted to Major-General and became a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
From 1900 to 1904 Abadie was the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
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- C., Buckland (1906). in Charles Edward Buckland: Dictionary of Indian Biography. Harvard University, Digitized July 8, 2005: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim: London, page 1.
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