FROM MIDSHIPMAN TO FIELD MARSHAL [Illustration: Evelyn Wood _F.M._ _1906._] FROM MIDSHIPMAN TO FIELD MARSHAL BY EVELYN WOOD, F.M., D.C.L. V.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G. WITH TWENTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS FIFTH AND CHEAPER EDITION METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _First Published_ (_in Two Volumes_) _October 1906_ _Second, Third, and Fourth Editions_ _October 1906_ _Fifth Edition_ (_in One Volume_) _November 1907_ TO MY COMRADES PAST AND PRESENT OF ALL RANKS IN BOTH SERVICES I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF MY LIFE CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE RECORD OF APPOINTMENTS, STAFF APPOINTMENTS, AND WAR SERVICES, EXTRACTED FROM THE OFFICIAL LIST xi I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. 1852--H.M.S. _QUEEN_, 116 GUNS 8 III. 1853–4--LIFE ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR 16 IV. 1854--INVASION OF THE CRIMEA 28 V. 1854--THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL 45 VI. 1854–5--A NAKED AND STARVING ARMY 57 VII. 1855--SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL 69 VIII. 1855--ASSAULT OF THE REDAN 82 IX. 1855--ASSAULT OF THE REDAN--_continued_ 92 X. 1856–7--13TH LIGHT DRAGOONS 106 XI. 1858--CENTRAL INDIA 118 XII. 1858--SINDWAHA 131 XIII. 1858–9--A PURSUIT 144 XIV. 1859--THE END OF THE MUTINY 154 XV. 1859--BEATSON’S HORSE 164 XVI. 1859–60--THE SIRONJ JUNGLES 176 XVII. 1860--CENTRAL INDIA HORSE 189 XVIII. 1861–2–3--THE STAFF COLLEGE 202 XIX. 1865–7--“ON THE STAFF” 218 XX. 1867–71--ALDERSHOT 230 XXI. 1871–2–3--90TH LIGHT INFANTRY 247 XXII. 1873--ASHANTI 257 XXIII. 1873–4--AT THE HEAD OF THE ROAD IN ASHANTI 269 XXIV. 1874–8--ALDERSHOT: SOUTH AFRICA 287 XXV. 1878--THE GAIKAS AND PERIE BUSH 304 XXVI. 1878--FROM KING WILLIAM’S TOWN TO UTRECHT 322