Service and Adventure with the Khakee Ressalah or Meerut Volunteer Horse Durng the Mutinies of 1857-58 - Couverture souple

Dunlop, Robert Henry Wallace

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845742362 ISBN 13 : 9781845742362

Editeur : Naval & Military Press Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Meerut was the garrison town near Delhi in central India where the great mutiny broke out in 1857, after the disciplining of some sepoys for refusing to bite rifle cartridges rumoured to have been greased with 'unclean' animal fats. Dunlop was an Anglo-Indian Magistrate serving in Meerut when the mutiny broke out. His account, based on diaries and letters he wrote at the time, vividly describes the mood on the eve of the mutiny - particularly the mysterious appearence of 'chapatis' - the dried flour wafers that were allegedly a sign of the impending outbreak. Dunlop describes the first outbreak of mutiny at Meeruit on May 10th and lists those soldiers and civilians murdered bythe mutineers. Subsequent chapters describe him joining the "Khakee Ressalah' or Meerut Volunteer Horse, and its subsequent service, incuding the defeat and death of the rebel leaderSah Mull. Often cited by historians of the Mutiny, Dunlop's account, at once vivid and thoughtful, represents the reactions of an intelligent Anglo-Indian who sees faults and qualities on both sides.HIs book includes a useful appendix listing all those units of the East Indian army which mutinied.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Meerut Mutiny, and the various phases of the disturbances during 1857, under the belief that the general history of this most important epoch in our British Indian annals might best be hereafter attained, by combining such threads of narrative drawn by separate writers in every district affected by the revolt. But such a narrative, I was told by a friend who was informed of my intention, would not be acceptable; as few care for learned disquisitions on the Sepoy revolt, its causes, local history, and consequences.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Naval & Military Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845742362
• ISBN 13: 9781845742362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 179
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