Nepal

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1. Iron Maiden DVDs
   05/31/2009 at 12:08 pm

   Not sure whether he was the first, but my great, great, great uncle, William Adolphus Dungle visited what is now Nepal during the Anglo-Nepalese War. He was a member of the British East India Company. He fought gallantly in a number of the campaigns but was severely wounded when he was hit in the face by a barrage of chapattis which were fired off in a cannon when the Nepalese had run out of ammunition.
   Hope this helps.

2. mai-ling
   05/31/2009 at 12:08 pm

   Probably someone from China.

3. Chariotm
   05/31/2009 at 12:08 pm

   The first contacts between the people of Nepal and Europeans occurred during the period of the later Mallas. The Portuguese missionaries John Cabral and Stephen Cacella visited Lhasa in 1628, after which Cabral traveled to Nepal. The first Capuchin mission was founded in Kathmandu in 1715. These contacts, however, affected only a miniscule number of people. Of far greater importance was the growth of British power in India, notably in Bengal to the southeast of Nepal, during the eighteenth century. By 1764 the British East India Company, officially a private trading corporation with its own army, had obtained from a decaying Mughal Empire the right to govern all of Bengal, at that time one of the most prosperous areas in Asia. The company explored possibilities for expanding its trade or authority into Nepal, Bhutan, and toward Tibet, where the Nepalese had their own trading agencies in important settlements. The increasingly powerful company was emerging as a wild card that could in theory be played by one or more of the kingdoms in Nepal during local struggles, potentially opening the entire Himalayan region to British penetration.