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Military Service and Adventures in the Far East - Including Sketches of the Campaigns against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6 (Paperback)
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Military Service and Adventures in the Far East - Including Sketches of the Campaigns against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History, Volume 2
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This two-volume work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer Daniel
Henry Mackinnon (1813 84) describes his military service in India,
in the campaigns against the Afghans in 1839 and the Sikhs in 1845
6. In the first edition, reissued here, the author is referred to
only as 'a cavalry officer', but in the second edition of 1849,
Mackinnon, a career soldier and writer, abandons his anonymity.
Volume 2 continues the account of the First Anglo-Afghan War, and
the eventual withdrawal of British troops, after which Mackinnon
travelled to Delhi and Agra before returning home. He went back
east in 1845, when the apparent peace of Northern India was about
to be disturbed by the Anglo-Sikh War. Again, his description of
the events leading to conflict are somewhat partisan, but his
eye-witness accounts of the battles in which he fought (in one of
which his horse was shot underneath him) are gripping.
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