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

CHAPTER I.

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Boyhood--Enlistment--Will of Peter the Great--Recruits' Drill--What the Fusiliers were Thirty 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 Pages 1-40