Produced by StevenGibbs, Jane Hyland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "_Adventures are to the adventurous._" BEACONSFIELD. [Illustration: _THE ADVENTURE SERIES._] THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Cr. 8vo, 5s. 1. Adventures of a Younger Son. By E.J. Trelawny. _With an Introduction by Edward Garnett._ Second Edition. 2. Robert Drury's Journal in Madagascar. _Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Captain S.P. Oliver._ 3. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp. _With an Introduction by H. Manners Chichester._ 4. The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner. _Written by himself, and edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Robert Brown._ _Others in the Press._ MEMOIRS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MILITARY CAREER OF JOHN SHIPP, LATE A LIEUT. IN HIS MAJESTY'S 87TH REGIMENT WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY H. MANNERS CHICHESTER LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXC [Illustration: LIEUTENANT JOHN SHIPP.] CONTENTS. PAGE (1) EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 7 (2) AUTHOR'S PREFACE 15 (3) MEMOIRS OF JOHN SHIPP 17 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. (1) LIEUTENANT JOHN SHIPP _Frontispiece._ (2) SAXMUNDHAM CHURCH _To face p._ 32 (3) PLAN OF BHURTPORE " 98 (4) EUROPEAN CAVALRY OF SHIPP'S DAY " 144 (5) GHOORKA SOLDIER " 210 (6) THE FORT OF HATTRASS " 216 (7) TRAVELLING ON THE GANGES " 236 (8) INDIAN TROOPS OF SHIPP'S DAY " 326 (9) GHAUT ON THE GANGES " 360 INTRODUCTION. In reproducing the "Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp" as a volume of the Adventure Series, it may be well to say a few introductory words concerning the author and the book. John Shipp was, he tells us, the second son of Thomas and Laetitia Shipp, persons in humble circumstances in the little town of Saxmundham, in Suffolk, and he adds that in the registers of the parish church will be found a record of his birth on March 16, 1785. The latter statement is incorrect. The church register records baptisms, not births, and a careful search has shown that the only entry answering to the above is a record of the _baptism_ of John, the child of Thomas and Laetitia Shipp, at a date twelve months earlier--March 16, 1784. The error probably explains the conflicting statements of the author's age which occur in the course of the story.