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Williams, Rev. E. A.

 
9781843428206: Cruise Of The Pearl With An Account Of The Operations Of The Naval Brigade In India: Cruise Of The Pearl With An Account Of The Operations Of The Naval Brigade In India
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ISBN 10 : 1843428202 ISBN 13 : 9781843428206
Editeur : Naval and Military Press, 2009

Synopsis

An exciting account of a unique episode in the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58. As the author, who was naval Chaplain aboard ‘H.M.S Pearl’, says in his introduction: ‘This is, I believe, the only example in English history of officers and seamen of the Royal Navy leaving their ships, and taking their guns seven or eight hundred miles into the interior of a great continent, to serve as soldiers, marching and counter-marching for fifteen months...and taking an active part in upwards of twenty actions’. The crews of the ‘Pearl’ and the ‘Shannon’ were in Calcutta on a round-the-world show the flag tour when the Mutiny broke out. Pressed into shore service as the Naval Brigade, and serving alongside Gurkha regiments and the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry, the sailors took part in the Battles of Phoolpore,Belwa, Amorha, Hurrreah and Toolseepore and other exhausting actions. In Williams’ words ‘It was a brutalizing war in which quarter was neither given nor received’.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An exciting account of a unique episode in the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58. As the author, who was naval Chaplain aboard ‘H.M.S Pearl’, says in his introduction: ‘This is, I believe, the only example in English history of officers and seamen of the Royal Navy leaving their ships, and taking their guns seven or eight hundred miles into the interior of a great continent, to serve as soldiers, marching and counter-marching for fifteen months...and taking an active part in upwards of twenty actions’. The crews of the ‘Pearl’ and the ‘Shannon’ were in Calcutta on a round-the-world show the flag tour when the Mutiny broke out. Pressed into shore service as the Naval Brigade, and serving alongside Gurkha regiments and the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry, the sailors took part in the Battles of Phoolpore,Belwa, Amorha, Hurrreah and Toolseepore and other exhausting actions. In Williams’ words ‘It was a brutalizing war in which quarter was neither given nor received’.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Drawn from the unusual diary of a naval Chaplain detailing the exploits of a scratch Naval Brigade, consisting of warship crews fighting on shore, in quelling the Indian Mutiny in 1857-58. Charming, despite the grim nature of much of the material.

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Éditeur
Naval and Military Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1843428202
ISBN 13 
9781843428206
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
326
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