Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6Cambridge University Press, 24.05.2012 г. - 302 страници This two-volume work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer Daniel Henry Mackinnon (1813-84) describes his military service in India, in the campaigns against the Afghans in 1839 and the Sikhs in 1845-6. In the first edition, reissued here, the author is referred to only as 'a cavalry officer', but in the second edition of 1849, Mackinnon, a career soldier and writer, abandons his anonymity. Volume 2 continues the account of the First Anglo-Afghan War, and the eventual withdrawal of British troops, after which Mackinnon travelled to Delhi and Agra before returning home. He went back east in 1845, when the apparent peace of Northern India was about to be disturbed by the Anglo-Sikh War. Again, his description of the events leading to conflict are somewhat partisan, but his eye-witness accounts of the battles in which he fought (in one of which his horse was shot underneath him) are gripping. |
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CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 16 |
CHAPTER III | 37 |
CHAPTER IV | 65 |
CONTENTS | 91 |
CHAPTER VI | 133 |
CHAPTER VII | 163 |
CHAPTER VIII | 207 |
CHAPTER IX | 223 |
CHAPTER X | 249 |
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16th Lancers 1st Brigade 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION action advance Aeen Afghans Aliwal amongst arrived attack bank battalions batteries battle battle of Aliwal BATTLE OF SOBRAON Bengal British army British forces British government Buddewal cantonments Capt Caubul chiefs command crossed the Sutlej ditto enemy enemy's Ensign entrenchments Ferozepore Ferozeshuhur fire flank fords front frontier gallant garrison Ghoolab Singh Goorcheras Governor-general guns Gwalior H.M. 50th Regt horse artillery howitzers Hureeka India INFANTRY DIVISION irregular John Littler Jugraon jungle KILLED AND WOUnded Ladwa Lahore Lieut Lieut.-Col Loodiana main column ment Merut miles military Moodkee morning musketry Native Cavalry Native Infantry nearly night numbers occupied ORDNANCE CAPTURED palanquins party pickets position pounder Punjaub Rajah regiment reserve force retreat river Runjeet severely Sikh army Sikh forces Sir Harry Smith Sir Hugh Gough Sir John sirdars Sirmoor slightly Sobraon soldiers Staff storm Sutlej tion troops village whilst whole