CONTENTSCHAPTER PAGEI.[Days of Peace][1]II.[Commencement of Crimean War— Interview with Napoleon III. at Paris][10]III.[Battle of Alma][23]IV.[The Flank March][34]V.[Battle of Balaclava][44]VI.[Battle of Inkerman][55]VII.[The Winter of 1854][66]VIII.[Bombardment of April, 1855][78]IX.[Capture of the Mamelon and Quarries—Interview with General Pélissier][87]X.[Battle of June 18, and Death of Lord Raglan][96]XI.[Battle of Chernaya and the Fall of Sebastopol][106]XII.[The Indian Mutiny][121]XIII.[The Battles at Cawnpore][129]XIV.[Causes of the Mutiny, and Policy of Lord Canning][147]XV.[Recollections of the Madras Presidency][171]XVI.[Return to Bengal—Amalgamation of the Artillery Regiments][180]XVII.[Frontier Campaign in the Afghan Mountains—its Origin—Political and Military Difficulties] [185]XVIII.[Hard Fighting in the Mountains][195]XIX.[Political Complications—End of the War][205]XX.[Visit to Peshawur—Sir Hugh Rose returns to England—Sir William Mansfield appointed Commander-in-Chief][221]XXI.[The War in Bootan][230]XXII.[Farewell to India—Return to Regimental Duty at Woolwich—Appointed Director of Artillery—War Office Organisation][239]XXIII.[Short Service and Reserve][254]XXIV.[Localisation and County Regiments—Interview with Napoleon III.][265]XXV[Visit to the Crimea with Charles Gordon, 1872—Report on the Cemeteries][273]XXVI.[Rifled Ordnance and Naval and Military Reserves—Appointed Governor, Royal Military Academy—The British Army in 1875][284]XXVII.[Central Asia and the Afghan War of 1878-79][300]XXVIII.[Appointed Surveyor General of the Ordnance—Principles of Army Promotion—Egyptian War of 1882][322]XXIX.[Gibraltar—Its Value from a Naval and Commercial Point of View—Zobehr Pasha a State Prisoner—Sanitary Condition of Gibraltar][359]