No one like the British writer Rudyard Kipling, born in India, best defined the times he lived with his compatriot James Abbott (1807-1896), commander of the Navy and founder of the city of Abbottabad, where Osama bin Laden to hide the day of his death: "Just when everyone dies eventually the Great Game." The phrase has crossed the border to reach the literary circles of international relations can be extrapolated to the present day, appears in the novel Kim.
It refers to the political struggle that the Russian and British empires carried out for control of Central Asia in the nineteenth century. Were the place and time that marked the life of Abbott, a pawn in that game that, unlike most, was rewarded with a city that bore his name. Schoolmate of Benjamin Disraeli, the future British prime minister, became young artillery officer in the presidency of Bengal, belonging to the colony of India.
Since then participated in several missions of which the most notable was a foiled sabotage Russia nearly took his life. Back in India, visited the district of Hazara. He ended up settling in a small military enclave consisting of four battalions of native infantry. There, the empire that made him a knight of the prestigious Order of the Bath, led to the foundation "Abbott City, where they knew him as Sir Abbott and led a local fight against Sikhs in the Punjab region.
Interested in literature, wrote an ode to his city in verse that is among the worst poems written in English. 
It refers to the political struggle that the Russian and British empires carried out for control of Central Asia in the nineteenth century. Were the place and time that marked the life of Abbott, a pawn in that game that, unlike most, was rewarded with a city that bore his name. Schoolmate of Benjamin Disraeli, the future British prime minister, became young artillery officer in the presidency of Bengal, belonging to the colony of India.
Since then participated in several missions of which the most notable was a foiled sabotage Russia nearly took his life. Back in India, visited the district of Hazara. He ended up settling in a small military enclave consisting of four battalions of native infantry. There, the empire that made him a knight of the prestigious Order of the Bath, led to the foundation "Abbott City, where they knew him as Sir Abbott and led a local fight against Sikhs in the Punjab region.
Interested in literature, wrote an ode to his city in verse that is among the worst poems written in English.
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