Robert Melvin Blackwood

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA. 1801

CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF ASSAYE. 1803

CHAPTER III. CAPTURE OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 1806

CHAPTER IV. THE BATTLE OF MAIDA. 1806

CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF ROLICA. 1808

CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF VIMIERO. 1808

CHAPTER VII. THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA. 1809

CHAPTER VIII. THE BATTLE OF TALAVERA. 1809

CHAPTER IX. THE BATTLE OF BUSACO. 1810

CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF BAROSA. 1811

CHAPTER XI. THE BATTLE OF FUENTES D'ONORO. 1811

CHAPTER XII. THE BATTLE OF ALBUERA. 1811

CHAPTER XIII. THE SIEGE OF RODRIGO. 1812

CHAPTER XIV. THE SIEGE OF BADAJOZ. 1812

CHAPTER XV. THE BATTLE OF SALAMANCA. 1812

CHAPTER XVI. THE SIEGE OF BURGOS. 1812

CHAPTER XVII. THE BATTLE OF VITORIA. 1813

CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLES OF THE PYRENEES. PART FIRST. 1813

CHAPTER XIX. THE SIEGE OF SAN SEBASTIAN. 1813

CHAPTER XX. THE BATTLES OF THE PYRENEES. PART SECOND. 1813

CHAPTER XXI. THE BATTLES OF THE PYRENEES. PART THIRD. 1813

CHAPTER XXII. THE BATTLES OF THE PYRENEES. PART FOURTH. 1814

CHAPTER XXIII. THE BATTLE OF TOULOUSE. 1814

CHAPTER XXIV. THE BATTLE OF QUATRE BRAS. 1815

CHAPTER XXV. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 1815

CHAPTER XXVI. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO ( continued ). 1815

CHAPTER XXVII. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO ( continued ). 1815

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE BATTLE OF KEMMENDINE. 1824

CHAPTER XXIX. THE BATTLE OF MELLOONE. 1825

CHAPTER XXX. THE BATTLE OF PAGAHM-MEW. 1825

CHAPTER XXXI. THE AFGHANISTAN DISASTERS. 1838-39.

CHAPTER XXXII. THE DEFEAT OF THE BILUCHIS. 1842

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE BATTLE OF MOODKEE. 1845

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE BATTLE OF FEROZEPORE. 1845

CHAPTER XXXV. THE BATTLES OF ALIWAL AND SOBRAON. 1846

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE BATTLE OF MARTABAN. 1852

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE BATTLE OF PEGU. 1852

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA. 1854

CHAPTER XXXIX. The Battle of Balaclava. 1854

CHAPTER XL. The Battle of Inkerman. 1854

CHAPTER XLI. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. 1854-55.

CHAPTER XLII. THE BATTLES OF BUSHIRE, KOOSHAB, AND MOHAMMERAH. 1856-57.

CHAPTER XLIII. THE BATTLES AT DELHI. 1857

CHAPTER XLIV. THE BATTLES AT DELHI ( continued ). 1857

CHAPTER XLV. THE BATTLES AT DELHI ( continued ). 1857

CHAPTER XLVI. THE BATTLES AT CAWNPORE. 1857

CHAPTER XLVII. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. 1857

CHAPTER XLVIII. THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW ( continued ). 1857

CHAPTER XLIX. THE FIGHTING AT ALLAHABAD. 1857

CHAPTER L. THE FIGHTING AT FUTTEHGHUR. 1857

CHAPTER LI. THE SIEGE OF KOTAH. 1858

CHAPTER LII. THE FIGHTING AT JHANSI, ROOHEA, AND BAREILLY. 1857-58.

CHAPTER LIII. THE CAPTURE OF CANTON. 1857

CHAPTER LIV. THE BATTLES AT THE TAKU FORTS. 1860

CHAPTER LV. THE BATTLE OF AROGEE. 1868

CHAPTER LVI. THE STORMING OF MAGDALA. 1868

CHAPTER LVII. THE BATTLES OF AMOAFUL AND ORDASHU. 1874

CHAPTER LVIII. THE BATTLES WITH THE ZULUS. 1879

CHAPTER LIX. THE BATTLE OF MAZRA. 1880

CHAPTER LX. THE BATTLE OF TEL-EL-KEBIR. 1882

CHAPTER LXI. THE BATTLE OF MINHLA. 1885

CHAPTER LXII. THE BATTLE OF THE ATBARA. 1898

CHAPTER LXIII. THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN. 1898

CHAPTER LXIV. THE ADVANCE OF ROBERTS. 1900

CHAPTER LXV. THE BATTLE OF JIDBALLI. 1904

CHAPTER LXVI. THE BATTLE AT HOT SPRINGS. 1904

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THE BATTLES
OF THE
BRITISH ARMY

The Battles
OF THE
British Army

BEING
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL
ENGAGEMENTS DURING THE LAST
HUNDRED YEARS

BY
Robert Melvin Blackwood, m.a.

AUTHOR OF

“The British Army at Home and Abroad,”
“Some Great Commanders,”
&c., &c.


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