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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

Disembarkation in the Crimea--First Night in the Enemy's
      Country, a night long to be remembered, no shelter--March to
      the Alma--The Battle--The Fusiliers Leading the Van--Letter
      from the Heights to my Parents--A Fair Description of that
      Terrible Fight--March from the Alma--Balaclava easily
      Taken--We take up our position in front of Sebastopol--First
      Bombardment--The Battle of Balaclava--Charge of the Light
      and Heavy Brigades--Poem by Tennyson--Little
      Inkermann--Trench Work--The Battle of Inkermann, the
      Soldiers' Fight--Am Wounded--Description of that
      Fight--Aspect of the Field after the Fight--My Letter
      Home--Sent on to Malta--Letter from Her Majesty--Notes on a
      Norfolk Hero at Inkermann, Sir T. Troubridge--Who first
      Landed in the Crimea                                   41-93


                            CHAPTER III.

      Voyage to Malta--Scenes between Decks--An Insufficiency of
      Doctors--Landing at Malta--Kind Treatment in Hospital--The
      Nurses--Fast Recovery--Letter Home--Longing to be at it
      again--Purchase of Blankets and other Comforts--Another
      Letter Home--To the Front again--Reception by old
      Mess-Mates--Sufferings of the Army--Break-down of the
      Commissariat--Plenty of Stores Rotting in Harbour, but none
      to be got by the Troops--Make-shifts--Appearance of the Men
                                                           94-106


                            CHAPTER IV.

      More Trench Work--Meeting with Captain Vicars--My Letter of
      the 15th March, 1855--Night Attack in the Trenches--Capt.
      Vicars' Death--A few Remarks showing his Noble Character--My
      Letter Descriptive of the Fight--Storming Rifle Pits--More
      Trench Duty--Supplementary Letter--The Taking of the
      Quarries and Circular Trench--Desperate Fighting before
      Sebastopol, the 7th and 88th Leading--My Letter Home, 8th
      June--Continued Fighting--First Assault on the Town--Its
      Bloody Repulse--The Poor Old Light Division Cut to
      Pieces--The Fusiliers again Led the Way--My Letter of the
      18th--Waiting to be Revenged--A Terrible Night--Attack by
      the Enemy and its Bloody Repulse--My Letter of the 28th
      June, describing the Fight--Death of Lord Raglan much felt
      through the Allied Army--The Battle of Tchernaya, 16th
      August--The Enemy's Last Throw for Victory Defeated--My
      Letter Home of the 18th August--Creeping Closer and Closer
      to the Doomed City--The Last or Terrible Bombardment--A
      Nasty Blunder, our own people pitching into us--My Letter
      Home, 2 a.m., 8th Sept.--P.S. to it announcing my Death--My
      P.P.S. after I had recovered                        107-154


                             CHAPTER V.

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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