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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 1863Gowing, T. (Timothy)

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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

The Task before Sir Colin Campbell--Disaster at
      Arrah--Relief by Major Eyre--Attempted Surprise at
      Agra--Short, sharp work--The Mutiny in Oude--Relief of
      Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell--The Fighting--Withdrawal of
      the Garrison--Return to Cawnpore--General Windham in
      Difficulties--Nana Sahib Defeated--Lucknow again Invested,
      and again Relieved--Sikhs and Ghoorkas Fighting on our
      side--Death of Captain Hodson--Flying Columns Formed--Our
      Loss in following the Mutineers--The Proclamation of
      Pardon--Disarming the Native Troops--The Mutineers at
      Meean-Meer--Jack Ketch and his Victims--The Outbreak on the
      Frontier in 1858--The 7th Royal Fusiliers at
      Peshawur--Native Thieves--A Forced March--Encounter with the
      Enemy--A Truce--Hostilities Resumed--Bravery of the
      Ghoorkas--The Fusiliers Return to Ferozepore--March to
      Saugor (Central India)--Ravages of Cholera--Personal Opinion
      as to the Natives of India--The Ways, Manners and Customs of
      the People--Taking the Census--The Steps taken to Prevent
      another Mutiny--Letters from India                 301-379


                            CHAPTER IX.

      List of Battles Fought by Land between 1704 and 1882,
      showing Date when each was Fought, the Number we Lost, the
      supposed Number of the Enemy's Loss, the Regiments that
      Fought them, and a few Remarks upon some of them--First
      Action of the 15th Hussars--A Gallant Regiment of
      Tailors--Singular Description of a Deserter, from _London
      Gazette_, 1689--An Account of the Rise of the late Duke of
      Wellington--Loss of each Regiment on the Field of
      Waterloo--Some of the Duke's Letters about the Field of
      Waterloo--Napoleon and the French Press--The British Amazon
                                                            380-416


                             CHAPTER X.

      Curious Modes of Recruiting in the "Good Old Days"--Pig
      Killing--The Late Duke of Kent--Examples of Brevity--Act of
      Self Devotion--The Piper of the 74th Highlanders at
      Badajoz--It is better to leave "Well" Alone--Hard up! Hard
      up!--Remarkable Wounds and Hairbreadth Escapes--Introduction
      of Bayonets into our Army, and the use our people have made
      of them since 1672 up to the late go-in in Egypt, at
      Tel-el-Kebir--Desperate Defence of Colours--Heroic Stands by
      Small Armies against overwhelming Odds--The 52nd
      Regiment--Suffolk Regiments--England not a Military Nation?
                                                          417-452


                            CHAPTER XI.

      The Great Book--Mysteries of Providence--The Gift of a Bible
      and what it led to--The Secrets of the Sacred
      Shrine--Opinions of a Native Hindoo Priest.         453-464


                            CHAPTER XII.

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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