Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A.

CHAPTER I.

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OUTBREAK OF REBELLION--MARCH DOWN TO DELHI FROM DUGSHAI WITH FIRST EUROPEAN BENGAL FUSILEERS--APPOINTMENT TO INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT--RIDE FROM KURNAL TO MEERUT TO OPEN COMMUNICATION--ORDER TO RAISE REGIMENT--DEATH OF GENERAL ANSON--_May 10th-June 8th_ pp. 227-245