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Fighting Indians in the 7th United States Cavalry
Ami Frank Mulford
The Recollections of a Bugler of the Campaign Against the Nez Perce Indians 1876-77
An American Indian War campaign by a serving soldier The action of this book takes place within a cavalry regiment no longer under the command of the flamboyant George Armstrong Custer. Little time..
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Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49
James Henry Lawrence-Archer
The Battles of the Second Sikh War by an Eyewitness
An infantry officer’s view of the fall of the Sikhs The author of this book served with No 6 company of HM 24th Regiment—an infantry regiment of the British Army—which saw much service in the Secon..
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A Soldier’s Diary
Murray Cosby Jackson
South Africa 1899-1901—the Experiences of a N. C. O. of the Hants. Regiment and 7th Mounted Infantry During the Boer War
A unique illustrated account of the war against the Boers Occasionally, a book can be most readily described as 'delightful' and this book is certainly one of that select category. Jackson was one ..
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With the Guards’ Brigade During the Boer War
Edward P. Lowry
On Campaign from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
The Guards in the last of the Queen Empress's wars These are the doings of the Guards Brigade as experienced by one of their number—a padre—through the Great Boer War. The inexorable slowness of th..
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To Fight the Mahrattas
John Pester
The Journal of an Officer of the 2nd Bengal Native Infantry 1802-1806
An essential account of the conquest of India It is perhaps surprising that although India was the brightest jewel in the British Imperial Crown. there is comparatively little in print today about ..
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Through Three Victorian Campaigns
Charles Alexander Gordon
Experiences of a Regimental Surgeon During the Gwalior War, Campaigns in West Africa & the Indian Mutiny
Through the Queen Empress's Wars Gordon had a long military career. Indeed he became Surgeon General and this book has been extracted from his autobiography—'Recollections of Thirty-Nine Years in t..
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The Twelve Month’s Volunteer--Volume 2 1847
George C. Furber
The Recollections of a Member of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry During the Mexican war
Volume Two of a rare account of the Mexican war These are the further adventures of the 'Twelve Month Volunteer'. Volume two of this Leonaur edition takes up the story of the American Army in Mexic..
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The Twelve Month’s Volunteer--Volume 1 1846
George C. Furber
The Recollections of a Member of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry During the Mexican War
A classic account of the Mexican War by an American horse soldier The author of this book—now rare and hard to find on the antiquarian book market—has left posterity a substantial and in depth insi..
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Lady Sale’s Afghanistan
Florentia Sale
An Indomitable Victorian Lady’s Account of the Retreat from Kabul During the First Afghan War
The hard road back to India There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others hav..
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A Leicestershire Soldier in the Second Sikh War
John Ryder
Recollections of a Corporal of the 32nd Regiment of Foot in India 1848-49
The final defeat of the Sikhs of the Punjab This book, originally humbly and ambiguously titled 'Four Year's Service in India', is a treasure trove for students of the Sikh Wars and of the experien..
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Within Sebastopol
K. Hodasevich
A Narrative of the Campaign in the Crimea, and of the Events of the Siege
An unusual perspective on the Crimean War The author of this book—a Polish officer reluctantly serving with the Russian Army—has left us a revealing account of the war in the Crimea from the perspe..
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With the Cavalry to Afghanistan
William Taylor
The Experiences of a Trooper of H. M. 4th Light Dragoons During the First Afghan War
Up the Indus to Ghuznee and Kabul William Taylor, the author of this book, was a trooper in H.M 4th Light Dragoons in India as the campaign began to place Shah Shuja on the throne of Afghanistan. T..
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The King’s Hussar
Edwin Mole
The Recollections of a 14th (King’s) Hussar During the Victorian Era
An old soldier tells the story of his long military career This is an intimate account of the Victorian cavalryman of the British Army during the second half of the nineteenth century. Edwin Mole j..
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The Cawnpore Man
Mowbray Thompson
A First Hand Account of the Siege and Massacre During the Indian Mutiny By One of Four Survivors
A story of siege, massacre and survival Mowbray Thompson was an officer -stationed at Cawnpore with Wheeler's command within the Indian North Eastern province of Oudh during 1857—the year of the ou..
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Rifleman Sahib
E. Maude
The Recollections of an Officer of the Bombay Rifles During the Southern Mahratta Campaign, Second Sikh War, Persian Campaign and Indian Mutiny
The campaigns of a 'soldier sahib' in the nineteenth century The author of this book was a true soldier of the Raj. His long career took place almost entirely in India or was concerned with the war..
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