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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59, by William Forbes-Mitchell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude Author: William Forbes-Mitchell Release Date: August 13, 2010 [EBook #33426] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMINISCENCES OF THE GREAT MUTINY *** Produced by Barbara Kosker, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net REMINISCENCES OF THE GREAT MUTINY 1857-59 INCLUDING THE RELIEF, SIEGE, AND CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW, AND THE CAMPAIGNS IN ROHILCUND AND OUDE BY WILLIAM FORBES-MITCHELL LATE SERGEANT, NINETY-THIRD SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1910 _First Edition (Extra Crown 8vo) 1893. Reprinted 1894_ _Reprinted (Crown 8vo) 1895, 1897, 1904_ _Shilling Edition 1910_ To the OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND MEN, STILL LIVING, OF THE OLD NINETY-THIRD SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS, AND TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL DURING THE MUTINY OR HAVE SINCE PASSED AWAY, These Reminiscences ARE RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THEIR OLD SERVANT AND COMRADE, WILLIAM FORBES-MITCHELL, LATE NINETY-THIRD SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS. CALCUTTA, _April, 1893._ INTRODUCTION These Reminiscences are submitted to the public in the trust that they will be welcomed alike by soldier and civilian. They are recorded by one who was himself an actor in the scenes which he describes, and who viewed them from a novel and most unusual position for a military historian--the ranks. They have been carefully perused by an officer who was present at many of the operations mentioned; and considerable pains have been taken to verify, wherever possible, those incidents of which he was not personally cognisant. The interest of Mr. Forbes-Mitchell's straightforward and soldierlike story is enhanced by the coincidence that he takes up the pen where Lady Ingl
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