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“You are to act as a counterpoint to Francis Younghusband by means of identificational repentance and by releasing the opposite spirit that characterised his expeditionary forces invasion of Tibet (1903)” (not verbatim).
Francis Younghusband
Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game.
During the invasion of Tibet (1903) British soldiers mowed down the Tibetans with machine guns as they fled. Lieutenant Arthur Hadow, commander of the Maxim gun detachment wrote*
“I got so sick of the slaughter that I ceased fire, though the general’s order was to make as big a bag as possible,”
and in a letter to his father he wrote
“I hope I shall never again have to shoot down men walking away.”
* French P 1995, Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer, Flamingo, London Page 223