CONTENTS
Evelyn Wood
CHAP.
PAGE
RECORD OF APPOINTMENTS, STAFF APPOINTMENTS, AND WAR SERVICES, EXTRACTED FROM THE OFFICIAL LIST
xi
I.
INTRODUCTION
1
II.
1852—H.M.S.
QUEEN
, 116 GUNS
8
III.
1853–4—LIFE ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR
16
IV.
1854—INVASION OF THE CRIMEA
28
V.
1854—THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL
45
VI.
1854–5—A NAKED AND STARVING ARMY
57
VII.
1855—SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL
69
VIII.
1855—ASSAULT OF THE REDAN
82
IX.
1855—ASSAULT OF THE REDAN—
continued
92
X.
1856–7—13TH LIGHT DRAGOONS
106
XI.
1858—CENTRAL INDIA
118
XII.
1858—SINDWAHA
131
XIII.
1858–9—A PURSUIT
144
XIV.
1859—THE END OF THE MUTINY
154
XV.
1859—BEATSON’S HORSE
164
XVI.
1859–60—THE SIRONJ JUNGLES
176
XVII.
1860—CENTRAL INDIA HORSE
189
XVIII.
1861–2–3—THE STAFF COLLEGE
202
XIX.
1865–7—“ON THE STAFF”
218
XX.
1867–71—ALDERSHOT
230
XXI.
1871–2–3—90TH LIGHT INFANTRY
247
XXII.
1873—ASHANTI
257
XXIII.
1873–4—AT THE HEAD OF THE ROAD IN ASHANTI
269
XXIV.
1874–8—ALDERSHOT: SOUTH AFRICA
287
XXV.
1878—THE GAIKAS AND PERIE BUSH
304
XXVI.
1878—FROM KING WILLIAM’S TOWN TO UTRECHT
322
XXVII.
1878—PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
334
XXVIII.
CHRISTMAS 1878—THE INVASION OF ZULULAND
344
XXIX.
1879—IN ZULULAND
357
XXX.
1879—THE INHLOBANE, 28TH MARCH
368
XXXI.
1879—KAMBULA, 29TH MARCH
377
XXXII.
1879—THE PRINCE IMPERIAL
390
XXXIII.
1879—ULUNDI
399
XXXIV.
1879—COMPLIMENTARY HONOURS
408
XXXV.
1880—H.I.M. THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE
417
XXXVI.
1881—THE LAND OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS
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