  | CHAPTER I. | | | Boyhood—Enlistment—Will of Peter the Great—Recruits’ Drill—What the Fusiliers were Thirty Years ago—The Young Idea had to be Taught how to Shoot—The Fusiliers Depart for the East—The Writer quickly follows them—Voyage out—Call at Gibraltar and Malta—Landing in Turkey—Its Scenery and People—Marching and Counter-Marching—The Unseen Enemy, Cholera—Embark again for the Crimea, escorted by the Fleets of England and France—An Account of the Services of the Leader of the Crimean Army, Lord Raglan—Also of Sir G. Brown, Sir De Lacy Evans, Sir Colin Campbell, Sir George Cathcart, and the Earl of Cardigan—Population of the British Empire—Remarkable Battles that have been fought on Sundays—Voyage up the Black Sea—The Russian Fleet | | Pages 1-40 | | | | CHAPTER II. | | | Disembarkation in the Crimea—First Night in the Enemy’s Country, a night long to be remembered, no shelter—March to the Alma—The Battle—The Fusiliers Leading the Van—Letter from the Heights to my Parents—A Fair Description of that Terrible Fight—March from the Alma—Balaclava easily Taken—We take up our position in front of Sebastopol—First Bombardment—The Battle of Balaclava—Charge of the Light and Heavy Brigades—Poem by Tennyson—Little Inkermann—Trench Work—The Battle of Inkermann, the Soldiers’ Fight—Am Wounded—Description of that Fight—Aspect of the Field after the Fight—My Letter Home—Sent on to Malta—Letter from Her Majesty—Notes on a Norfolk Hero at Inkermann, Sir T. Troubridge—Who first Landed in the Crimea | | 41-93 | | | | CHAPTER III. | | | Voyage to Malta—Scenes between Decks—An Insufficiency of Doctors—Landing at Malta—Kind Treatment in Hospital—The Nurses—Fast Recovery—Letter Home—Longing to be at it again—Purchase of Blankets and other Comforts—Another Letter Home—To the Front again—Reception by old Mess-Mates—Sufferings of the Army—Break-down of the Commissariat—Plenty of Stores Rotting in Harbour, but none to be got by the Troops—Make-shifts—Appearance of the Men | | 94-106 | | | | CHAPTER IV. | | | More Trench Work—Meeting with Captain Vicars—My Letter of the 15th March,1855—Night Attack in the Trenches—Capt. Vicars’ Death—A few Remarks showing his Noble Character—My Letter Descriptive of the Fight—Storming Rifle Pits—More Trench Duty—Supplementary Letter—The Taking of the Quarries and Circular Trench—Desperate Fighting before Sebastopol, the 7th and 88th Leading—My Letter Home, 8th June—Continued Fighting—First Assault on the Town—Its Bloody Repulse—The Poor Old Light Division Cut to Pieces—The Fusiliers again Led the Way—My Letter of the 18th—Waiting to be Revenged—A Terrible Night—Attack by the Enemy and its Bloody Repulse—My Letter of the 28th June, describing the Fight—Death of Lord Raglan much felt through the Allied Army—The Battle of Tchernaya, 16th August—The Enemy’s Last Throw for Victory Defeated—My Letter Home of the 18th August—Creeping Closer and Closer to the Doomed City—The Last or Terrible Bombardment—A Nasty Blunder, our own people pitching in to us—My Letter Home, 2 a.m., 8th Sept.—P.S. to it announcing my Death—My P.P.S. after I had recovered | | 107-154 | | | | CHAPTER V. | | | The Storming of the Town—A Description of the Assault—Capture of the Malakoff and Redan—Am left on the Field Wounded—Our Loss, the French Loss, and the Enemy’s Loss—The Spoil—The Aspect of the Interior of the Town after the Siege—Napoleon’s Opinion as to the Source of England’s Strength—Letter of 14th September, 1855 | | 155-175 | | | | CHAPTER VI. | | | Numerical List of Killed And Wounded in the various Regiments forming the Crimean Army—Loss of the Light and Second Divisions—Loss by Neglect, Hardships, and Starvation—List of the Regiments that formed the various Divisions of the Army—After the Siege—Lines on Miss Florence Nightingale—A Peep Behind the Scenes—A Dreadful Explosion in the Camp and its Consequences—Lieut. Hope and the Fusiliers again leading almost to certain death—My Letter of 26th December, 1855, to my Parents.—Concluding Remarks, and Return Home to be nearly Killed with Kindness.—Irish Anecdotes—Records of the Royal Fusiliers—A Sketch of the “Holy Boys”—The Connaught Rangers not to be despised—Letter Home, 27th October, 1854—Lines on the Campaign | | 176-250 | | | | CHAPTER VII. | | | India, its Extent and Resources—Its Population—Its Invasion by Alexander—The beginning of the English Empire in India—The East India Company and its Officers—How the Empire was Extended—The Afghan Campaign of 1839-40-41—The Sikh War—Battle of Ferozeshah—The Norfolk Regiment amongst those who Safeguarded England’s honour—Battle of Aliwal—The “Holy Boys” again Leading the way—The Burmese War—Our Sepoy Army and how it was treated—The Mutiny Predicted—The Commencement of the Mutiny in 1857—Comparative Numbers of Native and British Troops—Mungul Pandy, the First Mutineer—Fatal Indecision of our Commanders—The Revolting Scenes at Delhi—List of the People Killed by the Rebels—The Force that first encountered the Mutineers—Rapid Spread of the Mutiny—Nana Sahib’s Proclamation—The Butchery of Women and Children—Delhi Captured and the Mutineers put to the sword, by a Norfolk Man, Sir Archdale Wilson—The Delhi Field Force and its killed and wounded—Vengeance exacted—Disarming Mutinous Regiments—Description of the Scene—Blowing Rebels from the Guns—The 10th (Lincolnshire) Regiment at Benares | | 251-300 | | | | CHAPTER VIII. | | The Task before Sir Colin Campbell—Disaster at Arrah—Relief by Major Eyre—Attempted Surprise at Agra—Short, sharp work—The Mutiny in Oude—Relief of Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell—The Fighting—Withdrawal of the Garrison—Return to Cawnpore—General Windham in Difficulties—Nana Sahib Defeated—Lucknow again Invested, and again Relieved—Sikhs and Ghoorkas Fighting on our side—Death of Captain Hodson—Flying Columns Formed—Our Loss in following the Mutineers—The Proclamation of Pardon—Disarming the
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