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George Saint Patrick Lawrence (1804–84) was a British Indian army officer who served in the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42), the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–49), and the Indian Mutiny (also known as the Sepoy Rebellion) of 1857‒58. During the initial phase of the First Anglo-Afghan War, Lawrence was political assistant and later military secretary to Sir William Macnaghten, the British envoy to Afghanistan. When the Afghan amir Dost Mohammed Khan surrendered to Macnaghten in November 1840, Lawrence was put in charge of the Afghan ruler until the ...