Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India. W. S. R. Hodson
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W. S. R. Hodson
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India
Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664608673
Table of Contents
PART II. NARRATIVE OF THE DELHI CAMPAIGN, 1857, 1858.
TWELVE YEARS OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE IN INDIA.
NARRATIVE OF THE DELHI CAMPAIGN, 1857.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
EARLY LIFE—RUGBY—TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE—GUERNSEY MILITIA
CHAPTER II.
ARRIVAL IN INDIA—CAMPAIGN ON THE SUTLEJ, BATTLES OF MOODKEE, FEROZESHAH, SOBRAON—OCCUPATION OF LAHORE—1845–6
CHAPTER III.
FIRST BENGAL EUROPEAN FUSILEERS—CASHMERE WITH SIKH ARMY—LAWRENCE ASYLUM—APPOINTMENT TO GUIDE CORPS—June, 1846-Oct. 1847
CHAPTER IV.
EMPLOYMENT IN THE PUNJAUB AS SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE CORPS OF GUIDES, AND ALSO AS ASSISTANT TO THE RESIDENT AT LAHORE—ROAD-MAKING AND SURVEYING—CAMPAIGN OF 1848–9—CAPTURE OF FORTS—BATTLE OF GUJERAT—ANNEXATION OF PUNJAUB—Oct. 1847-March, 1849
CHAPTER V.
ANNEXATION OF PUNJAUB—INCREASE OF CORPS OF GUIDES AT PESHAWUR—TRANSFER TO CIVIL DEPARTMENT AS ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER—April, 1849-April, 1850
CHAPTER VI.
TOUR IN CASHMERE AND THIBET WITH SIR HENRY LAWRENCE—TRANSFER TO CIS-SUTLEJ PROVINCES—June, 1850-Oct. 1851
CHAPTER VII.
MARRIAGE—COMMAND OF THE GUIDES—PESHAWUR—EUZOFZAI—FRONTIER WARFARE—MURDÂN—Jan. 1852-Nov. 1854
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