GENERAL SIR JOHN ADYE, G.C.B., R.A.

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1895
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[INTRODUCTION]

Having served for many years in the Royal Artillery, and taken part in some of the campaigns in which the British army has been engaged during my period of service, I am in hopes that my recollections may be of some interest, and my views on military subjects worthy of record; and I therefore publish them, dedicating my book to the Officers and Men of the Regiment amongst whom I have passed my career.

1895.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.[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]