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Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army - Gawa Lior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843, the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58, the Expedition to China, 1860-61, the Siege of Paris, 1870-71, Etc. (Hardcover)
Charles Alexander Gordon
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R957
Discovery Miles 9 570
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HUSSAR IN WINTER - A CAVALRYMAN'S EXPERIENCE OF A HARSH CAMPAIGN
Alexander Gordon witnessed the Peninsular War against Napoleon's
French Army from the saddle of a light cavalry mount. His was a
campaign of patrols and piquets, scouting and skirmishing. Caught
up in the gruelling winter campaign that was the retreat to
Corunna, where the pressures of the constantly pursuing French were
made worse by the privations of short rations, appalling weather
and difficult terrain, Gordon tells a story of fighting withdrawal,
but never of defeat. These pages also bring to life the fury and
action of the Napoleonic cavalry charge that was the ambition of
every horse soldier. Hussar in Winter is an essential Napoleonic
memoir for anyone interested in the British Cavalry
Through the Queen Empress's Wars
Gordon had a long military career. Indeed he became Surgeon General
and this book has been extracted from his
autobiography-'Recollections of Thirty-Nine Years in the Army'.
Although his later carer took him on several interesting military
missions as an observer including the Franco-Prussian War, the
Leonaur editors have elected to concentrate this account of an
actively involved British officer of the Victorian Age around those
campaigns where the author found himself in the front line of
events. We join Gordon during the early Victorian central Indian
campaign of the Gwalior War and several field force expeditions.
Service on the coast of Guinea is followed by the bloody days of
the Indian Mutiny before service with the Azimghur Field Force. For
those interested in the campaigns-particularly within the
sub-continent-of the early to mid Victorian period this is an
interesting eyewitness account by a military medical man.
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