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The Story of a Soldier’s Life

1903

PAGE WITI ON DUTY IN TITS TRENCHES AS AN ENGINEER OFFICER 1855 126 IX ASSAULT OF THE QUARRIES AND THE MAMELON 18 55 X REPULSE OF THE ALLIES ON JUNE 18 1855 XI THE BATTLE OF THE TCHERNAYA XII MY LAST NIGHT IN THE TRENCHES XIII THE FALL or SEBASTOPOL 1855 149 164 172 176. 188 XIV APPOINTED TO THE STAFF-WAR ENDS 1855-6 nox XV THE ARMY EMBARKS FOR HOME—I REJOIN THE 90TH LIGHT INFANTRY AT AL [...] He was a very religious Man in later years and a strong Protestant as all the family had been since the Reformation; until his cousin the English Baronet Sir Charles Wolseley—the curious clever halcracked Chartist who had taken part in the assault of the BastIle—joined the Church of Rome. [...] Her religion. devoid of everything approaching to priest-craft—was the simplest Bible forth of worship: She was indeed one of the pure in heart of whom we are told they shall see God." I Mil pass rapidly over the story of my boyhood for I know by the memoirs of others how uninteresting are the tales of early youth. [...] men who for the previous half century had led the soldierS of the English Army in all the Indian battlei from the days of Arthur Wellesley to those of Colin Campbell. [...] Just before the battalion moved moved into action the day of Sobraon the colonel said to his men : I understand you mean to shoot me to-day but I want you to do me a favour ; don't kill me until the battle is well over." It was quite true ; they had meant to shoot him but the coolness with.which the request was made the soldier-like spirit and indifference to death it denoted the daring and
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Pages
410
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144399
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Frontmatter
i-xi Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter I Early Years—Join at Chatham—Voyage to India 1833-52
1-24 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter II Land in India—On Active Service in Burmah in 1852-3
25-47 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter III Expedition to Donnabew—Lead a Storming Party—Badly Wounded—Sent Home 1853
48-78 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter IV Go to the Crimea—Join the Light Division 1854
79-96 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter V The Crimea—My First Night on Outlying Picket there 1854
97-106 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter VI My First Day’s Duty in the Trenches 1854
107-114 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter VII Service in the Trenches as Assistant Engineer
115-125 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter VIII on Duty in the Trenches as an Engineer Officer 1855
126-148 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter IX Assault of the Quarries and the Mamelon 1855
149-163 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter X Repulse of the Allies on June 18 1855
164-171 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XI The Battle of the Tchernaya
172-175 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XII My Last Night in the Trenches
176-187 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XIII The Fall of Sebastopol 1855
188-200 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XIV Appointed to the Staff War Ends 1855-6
201-215 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XV The Army Embarks for Home—I Rejoin the Both Light Infantry at Aldershot 1856
216-226 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XVI Ordered to China for War there 1857
227-239 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XVII Shipwrecked in Straits of Banca—News that Bengal Army had Mutinied—Arrive in Calcutta 1857
240-254 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XVIII Forced March from Chinsura to Cawnpore 1857
255-273 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XIX Cawnpore in 1857—Th Nana’s Country Place- Advance into Oudh—Besieged in the Alum Bagh Palace
274-288 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XX Sir Colin Campbell’s Relief of Lucknow
289-324 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XXI With Sir James Outram at the Alum Bagh
325-333 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XXII The Siege and Capture of Lucknow 1858
334-341 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XXIII On then Staff of the Oudh Division 1858
342-347 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XXIV The Re-Conquest of Oudh 1858-9
348-361 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XXV The Baiswarra Campaign 1858
362-380 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Chapter XXVI The Baiswarra Campaign in the Winter of 1858-9
381-392 Field-Marshall Wolseley view
Index
393-398 Field-Marshall Wolseley view

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