Sound Advance: Experiences of an Officer of HM 50th Regt. in Australia, Burma and the Gwalior War in India

by Joseph Anderson

2021-01-08 09:34:57

The conquest of India -- the destruction of the MahrattasThis is continuing the story of Joseph Anderson, whose early career during the Napoleonic Wars was told in the Leonaur book Fighting Napoleon''s Empire. At the commencement of this book we fifi... Read more
The conquest of India -- the destruction of the MahrattasThis is continuing the story of Joseph Anderson, whose early career during the Napoleonic Wars was told in the Leonaur book Fighting Napoleon''s Empire. At the commencement of this book we fifi nd Anderson engaged as the Governor of a prison colony in Australia before he is posted to India. There, with the 50th Regt. of Foot, he is soon sent to Burma. Through Anderson''s writing we are given a view of military life and campaigning in the early Victorian period, in which many familiar personalities and regiments feature. In 1843 Anderson, by now a Brigadier, was engaged in the Gwalior War against the Mahrattas at the Battle of Punniar. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.56 in
Print pages176
PublisherOakpast
Publication date March 15, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781846771507
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Anderson CB KH (1 July 1790 – 18 July 1877), soldier and penal administrator, of the 50th Regiment, was commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from ...

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