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
Gowing, T. (Timothy)
Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Personal narratives
THE GUARDS AT INKERMANN 78
THE ATTACK ON THE TRENCHES, 22ND MARCH, 1855 110
THE FRENCH ATTACK ON THE MALAKOFF 159
INTERIOR OF THE REDAN AFTER ITS CAPTURE 167
A STREET IN SEBASTOPOL AFTER THE SIEGE 169
THE SCENE OF THE MASSACRES AT CAWNPORE 281
CAWNPORE WELL 286
BLOWING THE MUTINEERS FROM THE GUNS 295
GENERAL SIR HENRY HAVELOCK, K.C.B. 465
CAPTAIN HEDLEY VICARS, 97TH 487
CHAPTER I.
Boyhood--Enlistment--Will of Peter the Great--Recruits'
Drill--What the Fusiliers were 30 years ago--The Young Idea
had to be taught how to Shoot--The Fusiliers depart for the
East--The Writer quickly follows them--Voyage out--Call at
Gibraltar and Malta--Landing in Turkey--Its Scenery and
People--Marching and Counter-marching--The Unseen Enemy
"Cholera"--Embark again for the Crimea, escorted by the
Fleets of England and France--An Account of the Services of
the Leader of the Crimean Army, Lord Raglan--also of Sir G.
Brown, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir Colin Campbell, Sir George
Cathcart, and the Earl of Cardigan--Population of the
British Empire--Remarkable Battles that have been fought on
Sundays--Voyage up the Black Sea--The Russian Fleet.
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