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William Henry Giles Kingston. Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign
Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign
Table of Contents
W.H.G. Kingston
"Our Soldiers"
Chapter One
The Afghan Campaigns—1839–42
Eldred Pottinger at Herat
The Afghan War
Capture of Ghuznee—23rd July
Capture of Khelat—13th November
The Battle of Bamian
Dost Mahomed’s last charge
Action near Soorkhab—November 1841
Retreat from Cabul—6th January 1842
Defence of Jellalabad—October 1841 to April 1842
Forcing the Khyber Pass—5th April 1842
Occupation of Cabul in 1842
Defence of Candahar, 1842
Chapter Two
The Conquest of Scinde, 1843. Battle of Meeanee, 17th February 1843
Battle of Hyderabad—24th March 1843
Chapter Three
The Gwalior Campaign, 1843. Battle of Maharajpoor—29th December 1843
Chapter Four
The Punjaub Campaigns, 1845–1849. Battle of Moodkee—18th December 1845
Battle of Ferozeshah—21st December 1845
Battle of Aliwal—28th January 1846
Sobraon—10th February 1846
Battles in the Punjaub, 1848
Siege of Mooltan
Affair at Ramnuggur—22nd November
Battle of Chilianwala—13th January 1849
Battle of Goojerat—21st February 1849
Chapter Five
The Loss of H.M.S. Birkenhead
Chapter Six
The Crimean War—1854–1855
Battle of the Alma—20th September
Siege of Sebastopol
Battle of Balaclava—25th October
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Final Bombardment
Gallant deeds of the Crimean War
Chapter Seven
The Campaign in Persia—1856–1857
Chapter Eight
The Indian Mutiny—1857–1858
The Siege of Delhi—30th May to 20th September 1857
Gallantry of Brigadier Chamberlain
Storming of Delhi
Pursuit of the foe
Lieutenant Kerr at Kolapore
Defence of Cawnpore—7th and 25th June 1858
Lucknow—1857–1858
Defence of Lucknow—29th June to 25th September 1857
The Succour of Lucknow—25th September
Relief of Lucknow
Siege and Capture of Lucknow—2nd and 21st March
Some of the gallant deeds performed during the Suppression of the Mutiny
Chapter Nine
The Chinese War—1856–1860
Capture of the Taku Forts—21st August 1860
Chapter Ten
The New Zealand War—1863–1865. Ensign McKenna—An example of cool courage and devotion
Incidents of a skirmish in New Zealand, in the war of 1865, Lieutenant-colonel Havelock commanding. Gallantry of Captain Heaphy, A.R.V
Chapter Eleven
The Abyssinian Expedition—1867–1868
Chapter Twelve
The Ashantee War—1873–1874
March to Coomassie
Chapter Thirteen
The Afghan War—1878–1879
Chapter Fourteen
The Zulu War—1879
Chapter Fifteen
The Egyptian War—1882
Chapter Sixteen
Campaigns against the Mahdi—1883–1885
Battle of El-Teb—1884
Battle of Tamanieb—1884
The Expedition to Khartoum—1884 and 1885
The battle of Abu Klea
Fighting round Suakin—1885
McNeill’s Zareba
Chapter Seventeen
The Chitral Campaign—1885
The siege and defence of Chitral
The defence of Reshun
Colonel Kelly’s March
The capture of the Malakand Pass
Chapter Eighteen
The Terah Expedition—1897
The first Action of Dargai
Second Action of Dargai
Chapter Nineteen
The Re-conquest of the Sudan—1898
The Advance to Dongola
The Atbara Campaign
The Advance to Khartoum
The Battle of Omdurman
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William Henry Giles Kingston
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The next evening poor gallant Dost Mahomed, seeing his cause was hopeless, gave himself up to the British at Cabul, and shortly after was sent to British India.
The chiefs of certain hill tribes, Kuzzilbashs, Ghilzyes, and other robbers and bandits by profession, had been accustomed to receive subsidies to induce them to refrain from robbing any caravans or parties travelling in the neighbourhood of their territories. The expenses of the war in Afghanistan had been enormous; and it becoming necessary to retrench, it was unwisely determined to begin by cutting off the pay of these chiefs. They resented the measure, and assembling in vast numbers, took every opportunity of attacking the British troops passing through the defiles of their mountainous country. Sale’s brigade had reached Jugdulluck with little opposition; but on the next march it was seen that the heights were bristling with armed men, and a heavy fire was poured in with terrible effect from all the salient points on which the mountaineers had posted themselves. Sale threw out his flanking parties, and the light troops, skirmishing well up the hillsides, dislodged the enemy, whilst a party under Captain Wilkinson, pushing through the defile, found that the main outlet had not been guarded, and that the passage was clear. The march was resumed, but the enemy were not yet weary of the contest. Reappearing in great numbers, they fell furiously upon the British rearguard, and for a time the men thus suddenly assailed were in a state of terrible disorder. The energetic efforts of the officers, however, brought them back to a sense of their duty. Broadfoot, Backhouse, and Fenwick rallied and reanimated them. But the British loss was heavy; upwards of 100 were killed and wounded, and among them fell the gallant Captain Wyndham, of the 35th Native Infantry. Although lame from a hurt, at the moment of peril he had dismounted to save the life of a wounded soldier, by bearing him from the combat on his charger. When the rearguard broke before the onset of the Ghilzyes, unable to keep pace with the pursued, he turned, fought, and, overpowered by numbers, fell beneath the swords and knives of an unsparing foe. The force halted at Gundamuck. The political managers of affairs in Afghanistan fancied that this would prove the termination of disturbances in that country. Unhappily the storm which was to break with such fearful violence was only now gathering.
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