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

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

Автор: John Tulloch Nash, Metcalfe Henry, 192 стр., ISBN: 1846776244

Fighting with the Bengal Yeomanry Cavalry by John Tulloch Nash Private Metcalfe at Lucknow by Henry Metcalfe Two vital recollections of the great Indian uprisingThis 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...
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