Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude

I cannot truthfully commence these reminiscences with the usual formula of the amateur author,--namely, by stating that, "At the solicitation of numerous friends, the writer was...

By the 25th of September the whole of the Ninety-Third were once more together in Chinsurah, and on the 28th the first company, the grenadiers under Captain Middleton, started b...

When proceeding on our march to Lucknow it was clear as noonday to the meanest capacity that we were now in an enemy's country. None of the villages along the route were inhabit...

In the first chapter of these reminiscences I mentioned that, before leaving Dover, the Ninety-Third obtained a number of volunteers from the other Highland regiments serving in...

I must now leave for a little the general struggle, and turn to the actions of individual men as they fell under my own observation,--actions which neither appear in despatches...

By this time several of the old campaigners had kindled a fire in one of the small rooms, through the roof of which one of our shells had fallen the day before, making a conveni...

Since commencing these reminiscences, and more particularly during my late visit to Lucknow and Cawnpore, I have been asked by several people about the truth of the story of the...

So far as I now remember, the 30th of November, 1857, passed without any movement on the part of the enemy, and the Commander-in-Chief, in his letter describing the state of aff...

As a further proof that the British star was now in the ascendant, before we had been many days in Bithoor each company had got its full complement of native establishment, such...

When we returned to Cawnpore, although we had been barely two months away, we found it much altered. Many of the burnt-down bungalows were being rebuilt, and the fort at the end...

After leaving Oonao our division under Sir Edward Lugard reached Buntera, six miles from the Alumbagh, on the 27th of February, and halted there till the 2nd of March, when we m...

We had barely finished our meal when we noticed a stir among the staff-officers, and a consultation taking place between General Sir Edward Lugard, Brigadier Adrian Hope, and Co...

On the return of the regiment to camp at the Dilkoosha on the 13th of March I was glad to get back to my own company. The men were mortified because they had not shared in the h...

After the Mutiny some meddling philanthropists in England tried to get up an agitation about such stories as wounded sepoys being burnt alive; but owing to the nature of the war...

The heat was now very oppressive, and we had many men struck down by the sun every day. We reached Shahjehanpore on the 30th of April, and found that every building in the canto...