PREFACE.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

MAPS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. THE CAPITULATION OF PARIS.

CHAPTER II. MILITARY OCCUPATION OF FRANCE

CHAPTER III. OCCUPATION OF FRENCH FORTRESSES.

CHAPTER IV. FIRST PART OF THE LONG EUROPEAN PEACE.

CHAPTER V. SECOND PART OF THE LONG EUROPEAN PEACE.

CHAPTER VI. BEGINNING OF THE WAR IN THE EAST.

CHAPTER VII. THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA.

CHAPTER IX. THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN.

CHAPTER X. THE WINTER OF 1854-55 IN THE CRIMEA.

CHAPTER XI. THE FALL OF SEVASTOPOL.

CHAPTER XII. THE END OF THE RUSSIAN WAR.

CHAPTER XIII. A PERIOD OF WAR, 1856-1871.

CHAPTER XIV. ARMY REFORM, 1871-1885.

CHAPTER XV. THE WAR IN EGYPT, 1882.

CHAPTER XVI. FIRST PART OF THE WAR IN THE SUDAN, 1884-85 EXPEDITION UP THE NILE.

CHAPTER XVII. SECOND PART OF THE WAR IN THE SUDAN, 1884-1885 SUAKIN CAMPAIGN.

APPENDIX I.

APPENDIX II.

APPENDIX III. From the Duke of York to the Duke of Wellington.

APPENDIX IV. DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH CONTINGENT IN FRANCE, APRIL 10, 1816.

APPENDIX V. SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE BAND OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.

APPENDIX VI.

APPENDIX VII. COLDSTREAM GUARDS HOSPITAL.

APPENDIX VIII. THE NULLI SECUNDUS CLUB.

APPENDIX IX. GENERAL ORDER, No. 1, CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 30, 1854.

APPENDIX X. DEATH OF FIELD-MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN, G.C.B.

APPENDIX XI.

APPENDIX XII.

APPENDIX XIII. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

APPENDIX XIV.

APPENDIX XV. [493]

APPENDIX XVI.

INDEX.

Footnotes have been collected at the end of each chapter, and are linked for ease of reference.

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