CONTENTS

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[425]
XXXVII.1881—AFTER MAJUBA[434]
XXXVIII.1881—A ROYAL COMMISSION[446]
XXXIX.1881—MARITZBURG[458]
XL.1882—CHATHAM AND ALEXANDRIA[466]
XLI.1883—SIRDAR[475]
XLII.1884–5—THE SUDAN[489]
XLIII.1885–6–7–8—COLCHESTER DISTRICT[502]
XLIV.1889—ALDERSHOT[513]
XLV.1889–90—REFORMS AT ALDERSHOT[525]
XLVI.1891–2–3—TRAINING OF TROOPS ON PRIVATE LANDS[537]
XLVII.1893–6—QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL[547]
XLVIII.1897–90—ADJUTANT-GENERAL[559]
XLIX.ADJUTANT-GENERAL—continued[571]
L.1901–2–3—SECOND ARMY CORPS DISTRICT[582]