Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India

Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India - Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late...
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Author: Hodson, W. S. R. (William Stephen Raikes),1821-1858
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Language: English
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Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India

Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India

€6,27

Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India

€6,27
Author: Hodson, W. S. R. (William Stephen Raikes),1821-1858
Format: eBook
Language: English

Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India - Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A.

It can scarcely be needful to make any apology for offering to the public this record of one who has attracted to himself so large a measure of attention and admiration. Many, both in this country and in India, have expressed, and I doubt not many others have felt, a desire to know more of the commander of Hodson's Horse, and captor of the King of Delhi and his sons. My original intention was to have compiled from my brother's letters merely an account of the part he bore in the late unhappy war. I very soon, however, determined to extend the work, so as to embrace the whole of his life in India. I felt that the public would naturally inquire by what previous process of training he had acquired, not merely his consummate skill in the great game of war, but his experience of Asiatics and marvellous influence over their minds. The earlier portions of this book will serve to answer such inquiries; they will show the gradual development of my brother's character and powers, and that those exploits which astonished the 48 world by their skill and daring, were but the natural results of the high idea of the soldier's profession which he proposed to himself, honestly and consistently worked out during ten years of training, in perhaps the finest school that ever existed for soldiers and administrators. They will explain how it was that, in the midst of a struggle for the very existence of our empire, he was able to call into being and bring into the field around Delhi an "invincible and all but ubiquitous" body of cavalry. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 39448
Author: Hodson, W. S. R. (William Stephen Raikes)
Release Date: Apr 14, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Hodson, George H

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