Men of the Mutiny: Two Accounts of the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857 - Couverture rigide

Nash, John Tulloch; Henry, Metcalfe

 
9781846776243: Men of the Mutiny: Two Accounts of the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857

Synopsis

Fighting with the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry by John Tulloch Nash
Private Metcalfe at Lucknow by Henry Metcalfe

Two vital recollections of the great Indian uprising

This is another Leonaur volume which includes two essential perspectives of a single conflict within one book for great value reading. The first account sees the Mutiny from the perspective of a hastily thrown together unit of irregular cavalry. The author-a gentleman volunteer-saw much hard riding, tough campaigning and brutal action. He has recorded it all here for posterity in this rare but vital first hand account. By contrast, Private Metcalfe's is an authentic voice of the ordinary infantryman of the Queen Empress's regular army. A soldier of the 32nd Foot from the age of thirteen Metcalfe was of the stuff that 'kept the map red'. Rough, tough, nostalgic and capable of acts of violence and great kindness by turns, Metcalfe possessed almost limitless endurance, stoicism and good humour throughout one of the most demanding actions of the war-the siege of the Residency at Lucknow.

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9781846776236: Men of the Mutiny: Two Accounts of the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857

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ISBN 10 :  1846776236 ISBN 13 :  9781846776236
Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2009
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