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The author offers a first-person soldier's memoir of a mid-19th-century military campaign launched from the Indian subcontinent into Afghanistan, tracing marches, sieges, and the storming of a fortified hill town. The narrative blends battlefield sketches, skirmishes, and narrow escapes with camp anecdotes, local encounters, thefts, and brutal hardships, and includes descriptions of landscape, native customs, funerary rites, and moments of courage and tragedy among officers, troops, and camp followers.

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Title: Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan

Author: William Taylor

Release date: August 23, 2010 [eBook #33496]
Most recently updated: January 29, 2021

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Asad Razzaki and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/Americana)

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SCENES AND ADVENTURES

IN

AFFGHANISTAN, BY WILLIAM TAYLOR,


LATE

Troop Serjeant-Major of the Fourth Light Dragoons.

 

 


LONDON:

T. C. NEWBY, 65, MORTIMER St., CAVENDISH Sq.
AND
T. & W. BOONE, 29, NEW BOND STREET.

1842.

T.C. Newby, Printer, 65, Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square.

TO

FLORENTINE LADY SALE,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED

AS A

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT AND ADMIRATION

FOR THE

HEROISM BY HER DISPLAYED

DURING THE LATE

CAMPAIGN IN AFFGHANISTAN.