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DENHAM, DIXON (1786–1828.)

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DENHAM, See also:DIXON (1786–1828.) , See also:English traveller in See also:West Central See also:Africa, was See also:born in See also:London on the 1st of See also:January 1786. He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' School, and was articled to a See also:solicitor, but joined the See also:army in 1811. First in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and afterwards in the 54th See also:foot, he served in the See also:campaigns in See also:Portugal, See also:Spain, See also:France and See also:Belgium, and received the See also:Waterloo See also:medal. In 1821 he volunteered to join Dr Oudney and See also:Hugh See also:Clapperton (q.v.), who had been sent by the-DENHAM See also:British See also:government via See also:Tripoli to the central See also:Sudan. He joined the expedition 'at Murzuk in See also:Fezzan. Finding the promised escort not forthcoming, Denham, whose See also:energy was boundless, started for See also:England to complain of the " duplicity " of the See also:pasha of Tripoli. The pasha, alarmed, sent messengers after him with promises to meet his demands. Denham, who had reached See also:Marseilles, consented to return, the escort was forthcoming, and Murzuk was regained in See also:November 1822. Thence the expedition made its way across the See also:Sahara to See also:Bornu, reached in See also:February 1823. Here Denham, against the wish of Oudney and Clapperton, accompanied a slave-raiding expedition into the Mandara high-lands See also:south of Bornu. The raiders were defeated, and Denham barely escaped with his See also:life. When Oudney and Clapperton set out, See also:December 1823, for the See also:Hausa states, Denham remained behind.

He explored the western, south and south-eastern shores of See also:

Lake See also:Chad, and the See also:lower courses of the See also:rivers Waube, Logone and See also:Shari. In See also:August 1824, Clapperton having returned and Oudney being dead, Bornu was See also:left on the return See also:journey to Tripoli and England. In December 1826 Denham, promoted See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel, sailed for Sierra Leone as See also:superintendent of liberated Africans. In 1828 he was appointed See also:governor of Sierra Leone, but after administering the See also:colony for five See also:weeks died of See also:fever at See also:Freetown on the 8th of May 1828. See Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in See also:Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822–1824 (London, 1826), the greater See also:part of which is written by Denham; The See also:Story of Africa, vol. i. See also:chap. xiii. (London, 1892), by Dr See also:Robert See also:Brown.

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