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A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 — John Shaqi

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A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863

Name: A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863
Author: Gowing, T. (Timothy)

Gowing, T. (Timothy)

Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Personal narratives

A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE.




_THIS BOOK BELONGS TO_

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    If thou art borrowed by a friend,
    Right welcome shall he be
    To read, to study, not to lend,
    But to return to me.
    Not that imparted knowledge doth
    Diminish learning's store;
    But books, I find, if often lent,
    Return to me no more.


    Read slowly. Pause frequently.
    Think seriously. Return duly--
    With the corners of the leaves not turned down.

[Illustration:

  _OLDHAM PHOTO. COLCHESTER._        _AUTOTYPE_

T. GOWING,

_Late Sergeant-Major, Royal Fusiliers_.]




                       A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE

                                 OR

                      A Voice from the Ranks:

                              SHOWING

               THE COST OF WAR IN BLOOD AND TREASURE.

                      A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF
             THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN, FROM THE STANDPOINT
                           OF THE RANKS;
           THE INDIAN MUTINY, AND SOME OF ITS ATROCITIES;
                   THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGNS OF 1863.

                                ALSO
                SKETCHES OF THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF

        SIR H. HAVELOCK, K.C.B., AND CAPTAIN HEDLEY VICARS.

                           TOGETHER WITH
                  SOME THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.

                   BY ONE OF THE ROYAL FUSILIERS.

                           _NOTTINGHAM_:
          PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY THOS. FORMAN AND SONS
                               1896.

                       _All Rights Reserved._




                   _Price:--Gilt Edges, 6s. 6d._

  Copies may be had on application to the Author--T. GOWING,
  200, CHIPPINGHOUSE ROAD, SHEFFIELD; or from
  THE PUBLISHERS, NOTTINGHAM.




                              PREFACE.


Having been much encouraged by the rapid sale of 22,500 copies of the
first editions of my book, and being urged by a number of friends to go
more deeply into the subject, I have revised and considerably enlarged
it, and hope that the following pages will prove of interest, not only
to the rising generation, but to all thinking people. I have confined
myself strictly to a narrative of facts, whether the incidents related
came under my own observation or otherwise. A number of gentlemen have
kindly given me valuable assistance, and I am, moreover, indebted to
some of the best military writers, having consulted Napier, Maxwell,
Alison's "Europe," Wellington's Despatches, &c. Historical facts are
here brought forward which, probably, few of the rising generation are
acquainted with. My object has been to compress the largest amount of
information into the smallest possible space, and to insert in one
volume some of the most surprising and interesting events that have ever
taken place on land, and in which a Briton will glory.

A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863

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