OF A

SOLDIER'S LIFE IN INDIA:

BEING EXTRACTS FROM THE LETTERS

OF THE LATE

MAJOR W. S. R. HODSON, B. A.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;
FIRST BENGAL EUROPEAN FUSILEERS, COMMANDANT OF HODSON'S HORSE.

INCLUDING

A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE SIEGE OF DELHI
AND CAPTURE OF THE KING AND PRINCES.

EDITED BY HIS BROTHER,
THE REV. GEORGE H. HODSON, M. A.
SENIOR FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

FROM THE THIRD AND ENLARGED ENGLISH EDITION.