Excerpt from The Indian Mutiny of 1857: A Sketch of the Principal Military Events

Among the immense mass of literature dealing with the events in India in 1857, 1858, and 1859, there exists no brief general account of the purely military events of the great struggle. This book is a humble attempt to remedy the deficiency, and no one can be more aware than the author of its shortcomings. Nevertheless, in the hope that it may be of some use to those commencing a study of one of our greatest "Small Wars, " and that it may possibly afford a certain assistance to those whose time is limited, and who yet wish to obtain a general knowledge of the military problems presented to us by the political exigencies of our great oversea Empire, this little book is now published. With regard to the spelling of the names, I have endeavoured to employ that most generally used. I have however retained the old spelling of the names Lucknow, Cawnpore, Meerut, for I doubt if Lakhnao, Kahnpur, Mirath, would be generally recognized. For any mistakes in the spelling of names I trust I may be forgiven, for the differences in the various authorities are considerable.

For the facts of the story I have relied on the works of Kaye, Malleson, and Forrest, on Lord Roberts' "Forty-one Years in India, " and on certain Blue Books most kindly shown me at the Library of the India Office.

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