Francis Younghusband

Even then the book doesn't give much more attention to Mallory than to a half-dozen other fascinating figures, such as Francis Younghusband "soldier, philosopher, mystic visionary, and spy", who led the 1904 British invasion of Tibet, and E.O. Wheeler, an accomplished climber from Canada who made his mark on Everest not by mountaineering feats but by his prodigious and heroic mapmaking exploits.

Ascent to Immortality Michael J. Ybarra 2011

In 1903–4, Major Francis Younghusband, one of the most intriguing and ignominious figures in British imperial history, led a military mission into Tibet that turned into an invasion.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

In 1903–4, Major Francis Younghusband, one of the most intriguing and ignominious figures in British imperial history, led a military mission into Tibet that turned into an invasion.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

In 1903–4, Major Francis Younghusband, one of the most intriguing and ignominious figures in British imperial history, led a military mission into Tibet that turned into an invasion.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Just when we could do with a cracking new biography of President Roosevelt and the progressive response to the Great Depression, or the life of Ramsay MacDonald and the perils of coalition, or the travails of Francis Younghusband and the quagmire of Afghanistan, the publishers are withdrawing.

History used to be the study of great men. Now it's of Everyman Tristram Hunt 2010

Francis Younghusband inviting him to attend and present a paper on the subject: How to promote the spirit of World Fellowship through religion at the projected conference of the “World Fellowship Through Religion” to be held in London this coming July.

Unfolding Destiny 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

French is the author of a superb biography of the soldier-explorer Francis Younghusband, a less successful history of the Indian independence movement that read as if it were rushed out in time for the 50th anniversary of Partition, a marvellously clear-eyed book on Tibet, and the rightly celebrated and controversial official biography of Sir VS Naipaul.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

He proved his point a year later by sending to Tibet a military expedition under Francis Younghusband.

Phayul Latest News 2009

In 1904 British Colonel Francis Younghusband led a mission to seize Lhasa and attempt to exclude other foreign powers 'influence over Tibet.

PRI's The World 2008