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SIR ROBERT HENRY, a British military officer; born in 1782. He entered the army at a very early age, and his brilliant military career supplies some stirring pages in the history of the British Indian empire of the first half of the 19th century. In India, Burma, Afghanistan, wherever he was employed, he distinguished himself, especially in Afghanistan, where he forced Dost Mohammed Khan to surrender, and inflicted a crushing defeat on Akbar Khan at Jalalabad (1842), subsequently assisting in the recapture of Kabul. He died in 1845.