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The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815

Chapter 20: A Catalogue
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Compiled from the correspondence of Colonel Samuel Rice and other sources, the volume traces the everyday experience of a regimental officer in the British Army between 1793 and 1815. Through letters and extracts it records camp and shipboard routine, campaigns and marches, encounters with naval and overseas operations, disciplinary practices including corporal punishment, supply and administrative issues, personal impressions of comrades and commanders, and the small-scale incidents that shaped regimental life. The collection balances battlefield reports with domestic hardships, morale, and the procedures that kept units functioning, offering a ground-level view of military service during a prolonged era of war.

THE END.

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THE SHIP OF THE LINE IN BATTLE. By Admiral Sir REGINALD CUSTANCE, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O. Royal 8vo. 5s. net.

IMPERIALISM AND DEMOCRACY. Unionist Principles applied to Modern Problems. By ARTHUR PAGE, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of the 'Licensing Bill, 1908. Is it Just?' With Introduction by the Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, M. P. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

PIKE AND CARRONADE. By Major G. F. MacMUNN, D.S.O., R.F.A. With Frontispiece in colours. Crown 8vo. 6s.

"Major MacMunn belongs to that class of soldiers who have not only moved in the mid-current of action, but are also fortunately possessed of the gift of turning their experience to legitimate literary account. It was only natural that he should join the band of brilliant soldier-authors whose contributions have so long been one of the special features of 'Blackwood.'... And he has not only written well himself; he has been the cause of good writing in others, a gallant exploit of his youth having been celebrated in one of the best modern military ballads by the late Mr A. H. Beesly. But while it is good to have seen and done exciting things and to be able to write about them, the mere gift of narration, valuable as it is, is greatly enhanced when the writer has imagination and a sense of historic perspective as well. A good many of these stories and studies are based on experiences which have fallen to the lot of scores of British officers in the last fifteen or twenty years, on the Indian frontier or in Burma or in South Africa. But while few could have told them as well as Major MacMunn, fewer still could follow him in the more difficult task of conveying the sense of the changelessness of the immemorial East, or of reading in the present traces of 'old, unhappy, far-off things and battles long ago.'"—Spectator.


"A mighty hunter."—Globe.

"A great shikari."—Sportsman.

"Its variety is extraordinary."—Times.

SPORT IN FIVE CONTINENTS. By A. E. LEATHAM. Demy 8vo. With Illustrations. 15s. net.

WHEN KINGS RODE TO DELHI. By GABRIELLE FESTING, Author of 'From the Land of Princes,' 'John Hookham Frere and his Friends,' 'On the Distaff Side,' &c. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net. Illustrated.

This work shows the charm and romance of Indian history, it brings into relief the great and inspiring characters who have played a part in it, instead, as so many writers have done, of harping only upon the meanness and cruelty with which it has been defaced. The best friends of India have longed for such a book for many years, and will rejoice that it has at last been written. It is as readable as a novel, and of an interest far exceeding that of most fiction.

"It might have been supposed that our imagination would easily have been kindled by the story of the splendid princes who gloried and drank deep in the gardens and marble palaces by the banks of the Jamna.... But a book was still wanted which would make a wider public appreciate the charm of this romantic epoch. Such a book has, I think, at last appeared under the title, 'When Kings Rode to Delhi.' The particular merit of Miss Festing is that she feels the pathos and romance which hang about the crumbling walls of Delhi, and makes us feel it too."—Sir Theodore Morison, K.C.I.E., in Blackwood's Magazine.

THE HISTORY OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY. From the Earliest Times to 1912. By ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A., Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford; Author of 'The Making of the British Empire,' 'The Expansion of Great Britain,' &c., &c. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

"A book of remarkable scope and compression by a profound authority on international history, tracing the evolution of moderation as a guiding principle of our national policy."—The Observer.

"This book takes a place previously unoccupied, or only partially occupied, in English historical literature. The author has essayed a great task, and with no small measure of success."—Bristol Times.

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"This delightful book."—Country Life.

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CHANCES OF SPORTS OF SORTS. By Colonel T. A. ST QUINTIN, late 8th and 10th Hussars. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

"The most readable book we have had the luck to come across for a good while ... a singularly entertaining book, crammed with exciting adventures and enlivened with anecdote."—Sportsman.

"There is a dash of Charles O'Malley, a not unwelcome touch of Brigadier Gerard without his vanity, and Surtees over again in a larger atmosphere."—Times.

OLD IRISH LIFE. By J. M. Callwell. Demy 8vo. 10s. net. Illustrated.

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A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY. Reviewed and Illustrated from Original Documents. By Sir G. W. FORREST, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. Vol. III. Demy 8vo. 20s. net. With Plans and Illustrations.

Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., writes: "I cannot too strongly commend your stirring narrative to any that desire to know how their fellow-countrymen bore themselves in India when the hour of trial came more than half a century ago. What a prize it would make at a school!"

"Should be on every Englishman's bookshelf: it contains a national epic."—Standard.

"Of supreme interest. Mr Forrest has written one of the most absorbing books we have ever read."—Glasgow Herald.

LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR ALFRED LYALL, K.C.B., G.C.I.E., Hon. D.C.L. (Oxon.), Hon. LL.D. (Cantab.). By the Right Hon. Sir MORTIMER DURAND, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.


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