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Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief

by Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts

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Illustrated. Formatted for the Kindle. Linked Contetnts and footnotes.CHAPTER IVoyage to India — Life in Calcutta — A destructive cyclone — Home-sicknessCHAPTER IIBengal Horse Artillery — Incidents of the journey — New FriendsCHAPTER IIIWith my father at Peshawar — Peshawar in 1852 — Excitements of a frontier station — A flogging parade — Mackeson's assassination — The Jowaki expedition — A strange dream — A typical frontier fightCHAPTER IVA trip to Khagan — The Vale of Kashmir — With the Horse Artillery — My first visit to Simla — Life at Peshawar — A staff appointment — The bump of localityC...

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