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The Puggrie Wallahs - the 14th (King's) Light Dragoons in India During the Second Sikh War and in the Indian Mutiny, 1841-59 (Paperback)
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The Puggrie Wallahs - the 14th (King's) Light Dragoons in India During the Second Sikh War and in the Indian Mutiny, 1841-59 (Paperback)
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Two campaigns in India with the British light cavalry
As its commanding officer and as a noted Oxford University
academic Colonel Henry Hamilton was well placed to write the
history of the 14th (King's) Hussars. His full regimental history
covers from the origins of the regiment in 1715 to its service
during the Boer War at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
While some military history students require a work of this depth,
there are those who are primarily concerned with the periods when
regiments were on active service. For the 14th (King's) Hussars in
the 19th century, this was during the Napoleonic Wars, principally
during the Peninsular War in Spain and in the South of France, and
later in India where as H. M 14th (King's) Light Dragoons they
served with distinction in the Second Sikh War and during the
Indian Mutiny. By carefully editing Hamilton's book, and adding
illustrations and maps and supplementary material not originally
present, the Leonaur editors have created two linked volumes that
focus on these periods of the regiment's history.
The Puggrie Wallahs 1841-59 follows the 14th (King's ) Light
Dragoons as they take part in the second campaign fought to
subjugate the martial Sikhs of the Punjab. Hamilton's accounts of
the battles of the Second Sikh War are riveting, but of particular
interest to students of the subject will be the authors research
into the infamous 'volt-face' incident at the Battle of
Chillianwallah where cavalry regiments 'about-turned' and retired
whilst closing upon the enemy. Hamilton has included several,
rarely seen first hand accounts of the Chillianwallah engagement
that make fascinating and illuminating reading. The regiment's
campaign during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 is no less engrossing and
the book is unreservedly recommended.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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