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Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army / Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. cover

Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army / Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc.

Chapter 41: Transcribers’ Notes
By Sir Charles Alexander Gordon
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About This Book

The author, an army medical officer, recounts thirty-nine years of service across multiple postings and campaigns, from operations in India and on the West African coast to expeditions in China and the siege of Paris. He presents a chronological, chapter-by-chapter narrative combining vivid campaign descriptions, routine garrison life, medical and administrative duties, and the logistical and disciplinary challenges of military service. Personal observations illuminate the effects of climate, travel, and combat on soldiers and institutions, while episodic accounts of battles, sieges, and peacetime years sketch the professional and domestic rhythms of a long military career.

Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.

Transcribers’ Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Text uses both “via” and “viâ”, and other word-variants with and without accents.

Page 147: “the Moulvie already mentioned” was printed as “mention”; changed here.

Page 241: “probable casualties. Thus” was printed with a comma; changed here.

Page 251: “and it was impossible” was printed without the “was”; changed here.

Page 276: “glimering” was printed that way.

Page 303: The reference to Footnote 333 (originally “2”) was missing, and has been added in a plausible place by the Transcriber.

In the Index, the sub-entries under Paris all belong under “Paris” itself; they are not sub-entries of “Sieges of”.

The footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected and moved to follow the last chapter, just before the Index.