“It appears from the official records of the French War Office that Claude Auguste Court was born on the 26th September 1793, and entered the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris on the 24th April 1812. He was appointed sublieutenant in the 151st Regiment of the Line in 1813, and was transferred to the 68th Regiment in the following year. He was permitted to resign his commission in July 1818; but his service in the French army, though short, had not been undistinguished, for he served the campaign of 1813 in Saxony, of 1814 and of 1815, and was wounded by a musket-shot in the left leg on the 28th March 1813 at the skirmish at Halle. Court next took service in Persia, when he made the acquaintance of Avitabile, and finally travelled to the Panjab in company with him. This journey to Kabul was performed in the autumn of 1826, and in the spring of 1827 Court and Avitabile entered the service of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.”

Soldier and traveller: memoirs of Alexander Gardner, Colonel of Artillery...
By Alexander Haughton Campbell Gardner

P. 325-6

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