Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

List of Medals xi

Maps xii

Acknowledgments xv

Foreword xvii

1 Opening Shots of the Reign, 1837-42 1

2 War in China, 1840-54 12

3 Sind and Sikhs: a Napier and a Gough, 1843-45 23

4 The First Sikh War, 1845-46 37

5 The Second Sikh War, 1848-49 51

6 Other Wars in Other Places, 1848-54 61

7 Crimea: The Light Brigade and All That, 1854-55 68

8 Mutiny in India, 1857 84

9 The Dangerous Days, 1857 95

10 The Siege and Relief of Lucknow, 1857 112

11 Final Relief of Lucknow and End of the Mutiny, 1857-58 122

12 China and Elsewhere, 1858-61 134

13 The North-West Frontier, 1855-63 144

14 The Umbeyla Campaign, 1863 153

15 Africa, 1863-68 163

16 Wolseley: Red River and Army Reform, 1870-73 179

17 Wolseley in Ashantiland, 1873-74 190

18 Roberts's War, 1878-79 200

19 From Kabul to Kandahar, 1879-80 211

20 Zulus, 1878-79 218

21 Incidents in the Zulu War, 1879 229

22 Poor Sir George Colley, 1881 241

23 Wolseley versus Arabi and the Queen, 1881-82 253

24 The Sudan I: Heroes in Distress, 1883-84 270

25 The Sudan II: Too Late! 1884-85 282

26 Troubles on the Empire's Fringes: Manipur and Chitral, 1890-95 295

27 The Frontier Aflame, 1897 311

28 Tirah, 1897-98 318

29 Back to the Sudan, 1896-98 330

30 The Boer War I: 1899 339

31 The Boer War II: 1900 347

Appendix I The British Regiment 354

Appendix II The Little Wars 364

Appendix III Some British Orders 372

Bibliography 373

Index 383