The story of a soldiers life. Volume I / Field Marshal Wolseley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolseley, Field Marshal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History, Military--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

Few men in the Victorian Age achieved the stature of Field Marshal Garnet Wolesley, a dedicated soldier, man of foresight and vision, colonial administrator and up holder of the Pax Britannica from India to Africa. Viscount Wolseley started his military career in the little-known Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852), before being plunged into the bloody senseless conflict of the Crimean War (1854-55). His disgust of the mismanagement and amateurish conduct of the British army left him with a lifelong dedication to efficiency, his men and victory. Distinguished for his bravery during the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858), at Alambagh and Lucknow, and again during an expedition to China. His globetrotting career led him to North America where he was present during the early battles of the Civil War and his anecdotes of this time are pithy and worthy enough to be quoted even to this day. Duty called him away north to Canada to re-establish British dominion over the Red River province which he did with aplomb. He was now among the top generals of the British army; and was sent to bring the Ashanti campaign to a successful conclusion. He took over command from Lord Chelmsford in 1878 after the disastrous start to the Zulu war which he ruthlessly won with tenacity and dedication. However his finest hour was yet to come in Egypt; he destroyed the rebellion of Urabi Pasha in short order after the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and commanded the ill-fated, but ultimately brilliant, effort to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum. His two volume memoirs recount his brilliant career to his famous victory in the Ashanti War 1873-1874 and are a must read for anyone interested in the Victorian age or the British Empire.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

DEDICATION

CHAPTER I

Early Years Join at Chatham-Voyage to India-1833-52

CHAPTER II

Land in India-On Active Service in Burmah in 1852-3

CHAPTER III

Expedition to Donnabew-Lead a Storming Party-Badly Wounded-Sent Home 1853.

CHAPTER IV

Go to the Crimea Join the Light Division, 1854

CHAPTER V

The Crimea-My First Night on Outlying Picket there, 1854

CHAPTER VI

My First Day's Duty in the Trenches, 1854.

CHAPTER VII

Service in the Trenches as Assistant Engineer

CHAPTER VIII

On Duty in the Trenches as an Engineer Officer, 1855

CHAPTER IX

Assault of the Quarries and the Mamelon, 1855

CHAPTER X

Repulse of the Allies on June 18, 1855

CHAPTER XI

The Battle of the Tchernaya

CHAPTER XII

My Last Night in the Trenches

CHAPTER XIII

The Fall of Sebastopol 1855

CHAPTER XIV

Appointed to the Staff-War Ends, 1855-6

CHAPTER XV

The Army Embarks for Home-I Rejoin the 80th Light Infantry at Aldershot, 1856

CHAPTER XVI

Ordered to China for War there, 1857

CHAPTER XVII

Shipwrecked in Straits of Banca-News that Bengal Army had Mutinied-Arrive in Calcutta, 1857

CHAPTER XVIII

Forced March from Chinsura to Cawnpore 1857

CHAPTER XIX

Cawnpore in 1857-The Nana's Country Place-Advance into Oudh-Besieged in the Alum Bagh Palace

CHAPTER XX

Sir Colin Campbell's Relief of Lucknow

CHAPTER XXI

With Sir James Outram at the Alum Bagh

CHAPTER XXII

The Siege and Capture of Lucknow, 1858

CHAPTER XXIII

On the Staff of the Oudh Division, 1858

CHAPTER XXIV

The Re-Conquest of Oudh, 1858-9

CHAPTER XXV

The Baiswarra Campaign, 1858

CHAPTER XXVI

The Baiswarra Campaign in the Winter of 1858-9.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782895770

1782895779