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Who was Januarius MacGahan?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

He was an American war correspondent, born in New Lexington, Ohio, in 1844, died in Constantinople (Istanbul today), Turkey, in 1878. In his brief life he wrote for the New York Herald and London Daily News, eyewitness reports of the Franco Prussian War, Carlist War in Spain, Russian incursion into Central Asia and the conquest of the Moslem city of Khiva, and the Russo-Turkish War in Bulgaria. He also joined an expedition in 1875 to the arctic, His dispatches from Bulgaria in 1876 on Turkish atrocities in Bulgarian villages, are considered among the greatest of all newspaper correspondence. He died of typhus in Constantinople, his body returned to the United States for burial in New Lexington where his tombstone reads, MACGAHAN, LIBERATOR OF BULGARIA.

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