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INCLUDING THE RELIEF, SIEGE, AND CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW, AND THE CAMPAIGNS IN ROHILCUND AND OUDE
BY WILLIAM FORBES-MITCHELL LATE SERGEANT, NINETY-THIRD SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1910
_First Edition (Extra Crown 8vo) 1893. Reprinted 1894_ _Reprinted (Crown 8vo) 1895, 1897, 1904_ _Shilling Edition 1910_
OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND MEN,
OF THE OLD NINETY-THIRD SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS,
ARE RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
LATE NINETY-THIRD SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS.
These Reminiscences are submitted to the public in the trust that they will be welcomed alike by soldier and civilian. They are recorded by one who was himself an actor in the scenes which he describes, and who viewed them from a novel and most unusual position for a military historian--the ranks.
They have been carefully perused by an officer who was present at many of the operations mentioned; and considerable pains have been taken to verify, wherever possible, those incidents of which he was not personally cognisant.
The interest of Mr. Forbes-Mitchell's straightforward and soldierlike story is enhanced by the coincidence that he takes up the pen where Lady Inglis laid it down; and it is hoped that this volume may prove an acceptable continuation of her touching narrative of the Defence of Lucknow, and that, as a record of the Great Mutiny, it may furnish another thrilling chapter in that unparalleled story of suffering and of heroism,--of man's bravery and of woman's devotion.
CHAPTER I PAGE THE NINETY-THIRD HIGHLANDERS--SAIL FOR CHINA--COUNTER-ORDERED TO CALCUTTA--ARRIVAL IN INDIA 1
THE MARCH UP COUNTRY--FUTTEHPORE--CAWNPORE 9
START FOR LUCKNOW--SIR COLIN--THE DILKOOSHÁ--MARTINIÈRE-- SECUNDRABÂGH 26
THE NINETY-THIRD--ANECDOTES OF THE SECUNDRABÂGH--GENERAL EWART--THE SHÂH NUJEEF 51
PERSONAL ANECDOTES--CAPTURE OF THE SHÂH NUJEEF--A FEARFUL EXPERIENCE 74
BREAKFAST UNDER DIFFICULTIES--LONG SHOTS--THE LITTLE DRUMMER --EVACUATION OF THE RESIDENCY BY THE GARRISON 94
BAGPIPES AT LUCKNOW--A BEWILDERED BÂBOO--THE FORCED MARCH TO CAWNPORE--OPIUM--WYNDHAM'S MISTAKE 114