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FROM MIDSHIPMAN TO FIELD MARSHAL
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
FIELD MARSHAL SIR EVELYN WOOD V.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., D.C.L., P.S.C., Barrister-at-Law
APPOINTMENTS
STAFF APPOINTMENTS
WAR SERVICES
OTHER DISTINCTIONS
FROM MIDSHIPMAN TO FIELD MARSHAL
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II 1852—H.M.S. QUEEN, 116 GUNS
CHAPTER III 1853–4—LIFE ON BOARD A MAN OF WAR
CHAPTER IV 1854—INVASION OF THE CRIMEA
The First Bombardment
CHAPTER V 1854—THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL
CHAPTER VI 1854–5—A NAKED AND STARVING ARMY
CHAPTER VII 1855—SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL
CHAPTER VIII 1855—ASSAULT OF THE REDAN
CHAPTER IX 1855—ASSAULT OF THE REDAN—continued
CHAPTER X 1856–7—13TH LIGHT DRAGOONS
CHAPTER XI 1858—CENTRAL INDIA
CHAPTER XII 1858—SINDWAHA
CHAPTER XIII 1858–9—A PURSUIT
CHAPTER XIV 1859—THE END OF THE MUTINY
CHAPTER XV 1859—BEATSON’S HORSE
CHAPTER XVI 1859–60—THE SIRONJ JUNGLES
CHAPTER XVII 1860—CENTRAL INDIA HORSE
CHAPTER XVIII 1861–2–3—THE STAFF COLLEGE
CHAPTER XIX 1865–7—“ON THE STAFF”
CHAPTER XX 1867–71—ALDERSHOT
CHAPTER XXI 1871–2–3—90TH LIGHT INFANTRY
CHAPTER XXII 1873—ASHANTI
CHAPTER XXIII 1873–4—AT THE HEAD OF THE ROAD IN ASHANTI
CHAPTER XXIV 1874–8—ALDERSHOT: SOUTH AFRICA
CHAPTER XXV 1878—THE GAIKAS AND PERIE BUSH
CHAPTER XXVI 1878—FROM KING WILLIAM’S TOWN TO UTRECHT
CHAPTER XXVII 1878—PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
CHAPTER XXVIII CHRISTMAS 1878.—THE INVASION OF ZULULAND
CHAPTER XXIX 1879—IN ZULULAND
CHAPTER XXX 1879—THE INHLOBANE, 28TH MARCH
CHAPTER XXXI 1879—KAMBULA, 29TH MARCH
CHAPTER XXXII 1879—THE PRINCE IMPERIAL
CHAPTER XXXIII 1879—ULUNDI
CHAPTER XXXIV 1879—COMPLIMENTARY HONOURS
CHAPTER XXXV 1880—H.I.M. THE EMPRESS EUGENIE
CHAPTER XXXVI 1881—THE LAND OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS
CHAPTER XXXVII 1881—AFTER MAJUBA
CHAPTER XXXVIII 1881—A ROYAL COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXXIX 1881—MARITZBURG
CHAPTER XL 1882—CHATHAM AND ALEXANDRIA
CHAPTER XLI 1883—SIRDAR
CHAPTER XLII 1884–5—THE SUDAN
CHAPTER XLIII 1885–6–7–8—COLCHESTER DISTRICT
CHAPTER XLIV 1889—ALDERSHOT
CHAPTER XLV 1889–90—REFORMS AT ALDERSHOT
CHAPTER XLVI 1891–2–3—TRAINING OF TROOPS ON PRIVATE LANDS
CHAPTER XLVII 1893–6—QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL
CHAPTER XLVIII 1897–90—ADJUTANT-GENERAL
CHAPTER XLIX ADJUTANT-GENERAL—Continued
CHAPTER L 1901–2–3—SECOND ARMY CORPS DISTRICT
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
Transcriber’s Notes
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