Great Britain/France: Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (3 March 1842 – 17 January 1885). Oil on panel painting by James Tissot (1836-1902), 1870. Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby was an English traveller and soldier. He entered the Royal Horse Guards in 1859. Finding no chance for active service, his spirit of adventure sought outlets in balloon-ascents and in travels through Spain and Russia. In the summer of 1874 he accompanied the Carlist forces as correspondent of The Times, but before the end of the war he was transferred to Africa to report on Gordon's expedition to the Sudan.

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