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A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 3 (of 3)

Chapter 46: Transcriber’s Notes
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The volume continues the author's naval memoirs, offering eyewitness narratives of river and coastal engagements in East Asia alongside accounts of wider imperial and diplomatic service. It moves between vivid small-boat actions and fleet operations, descriptions of commands at distant stations, visits to regional ports and settlements, and episodes of sport and shore life. Interspersed are logistical and administrative detail, travel impressions, maps and illustrations, and reflective observations on officers, local societies, and the burdens of command, closing with voyages home and parting remarks that summarize a long career at sea.

MACMILLAN AND CO.’S MILITARY WORKS.

FORTY-ONE YEARS IN INDIA FROM SUBALTERN TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. By Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, V.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. New Edition in One Vol. With Forty-four Illustrations. Extra Crown 8vo. 10s. net.

TIMES.—“A vivid and simple narrative of things actually seen by a fighting man who, during forty-one years of Indian service, saw more hard fighting than almost any other Englishman of our time. It also records the experience of a military administrator who has conducted historical campaigns and been the presiding genius in the reorganisation of a great Army. But to the general reader, perhaps, its chief charm will be glimpses which it gives, with a certain Cervantes-like naïveté, of the personality of the author. A hundred unconscious touches, in the camp, on the battlefield, and at the council-table, reveal to us the veritable hero of the British private, and the fearless leader of men whom every native soldier would follow to the death.”

A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY AND OF THE DISTURBANCES WHICH ACCOMPANIED IT AMONG THE CIVIL POPULATION. By T. Rice Holmes. Fifth Edition, Revised throughout and slightly Enlarged. With Five Maps and Six Plans. Extra Crown 8vo. 12s. 6d.

ATHENÆUM.—“May be accepted without scruple as a standard authority.... Is worthy of a warm welcome. It is convenient in form, and the maps and plans are excellent.”

A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY. By Hon. J. W. Fortescue. In Two Vols. 8vo.

[Immediately.

A HISTORY OF THE 17th LANCERS (Duke of Cambridge’s Own). By Hon. J. W. Fortescue. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 25s. net.

ENGLAND IN EGYPT.

THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN: ITS LOSS AND RECOVERY. By Henry S. L. Alford, Lieutenant Royal Scots Fusiliers, and W. D. Sword, Lieutenant North Stafford Regiment. With numerous Illustrations, Portraits, and Maps. 8vo. 10s. net.

⁂ The Narrative includes the BATTLE OF OMDURMAN and the

FALL OF KHARTOUM.

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—“A plain, soldierly narrative which practically covers the whole recent history of the Soudan, and, as such, will doubtless meet with appreciative readers.”

THE CAMPAIGN IN TIRAH, 1897-1898.—An Account of the Expedition against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart, G.C.B., K.C.S.I. Based (by permission) on Letters contributed to the Times by Colonel H. D. Hutchinson, Director of Military Education in India. With Maps, Plans, and Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

NAVY AND ARMY.—“A book of singular interest, and of much practical value.... Of the actual fighting, Colonel Hutchinson writes brilliantly. His letters to the Times were the best sent regularly from the seat of war, and they are embodied in the volume with many additions and links.... Thoroughly good reading.... Emphatically a book to be read.”

MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd., LONDON.

Transcriber’s Notes

  • Images relocated close to related content.
  • Sidenotes relocated close to related content.
  • The original has a sidenote at the start of every page to indicate the current year and sometimes a reminder of the current location. Where the year and location are clear from the text and previous sidenotes, these page-top notes have been omitted.
  • Footnotes have been renumbered consecutively and relocated close to related content.
  • Punctuation and other obvious typographic inaccuracies were silently corrected.
  • Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
  • Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
  • The index that appears in volume III has been replicated into volumes I and II. Only those page numbers pertaining to this volume have been linked.