Download or read book The Crimean Diary And Letters Of Lieut General Windham written by Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War] Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham had served his country in the Grenadier Guards for some 23 years before retiring on half pay in 1849. The outbreak of the Crimean War led him back to active duty, being appointed assistant quartermaster-general of the 4th division; he arrived in the Peninsula with his division on the 14th September 1854. Just six days later he and his men were on the field at the Battle of Alma, although only slightly engaged, and he was also present at the battle of Balaclava. He was greatly distinguished at the battle of Inkerman, and owing to the death or disablement of superiors, was in charge of the whole of the 4th division for a time. He devoted every moment of the winter of 1854 to the care of his staving, ragged men who were suffering from the dearth of supplies during the terrible privations on the Russian steppe. Windham became a national hero for his actions in leading the gallant, but abortive, assault on the feared “Redan” fortification at Sebastopol on the 8th September 1855. Promoted immediately for his distinguished conduct to Major-General, he ended the war as the chief of staff of the army under Sir William Codrington. He served prominently during the Indian Mutiny, and despite a fierce resistance to overwhelming numbers of rebels at Cawnpore he was driven back through the town. He was unfairly castigated by the press and never received a further active command; the erroneous blackening of his name is laid to rest by the correspondence which was printed in this volume for the first time, in short he was hiding the errors of a subordinate.

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Download or read book A Diary of the Crimea written by George Palmer Evelyn and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1954, is a fascinating first-hand account by Rifle Brigade officer of the British Army, George Palmer Evelyn, of his experiences during the war in Crimea and on the Danube between 1853-1855. These are conveyed in the form of his diary entries at the time, as well as letters and other related papers dating from 1854-1857 and 1871. Illustrated with official photographs taken during the war.

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Download or read book Little Hodge Being Extracts from the Diaries and Letters of Colonel Edward Cooper Hodge Written During the Crimean War 1854 1856 written by Edward Cooper Hodge and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Guardsman in the Crimea written by Martin Sheppard and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brigade of Guards was the elite force of the British Army in the Crimea. William Scarlett, a captain in the Scots Fusilier Guard and one of the most active junior officers in the regiment, fought throughout the entire campaign. After the Allied landing at Kalamita Bay, Scarlett rallied his regiment at a critical moment during the battle of the Alma, supported by his company sergeant, who was awarded the VC. William Scarlett’s life may well have been saved after the battle of Balaklava by becoming an aide de camp to his uncle, General James Scarlett, the commander of the Heavy Brigade. This meant that he did not fight at Inkerman, which took a heavy toll on the officers of the Guards Brigade. Returning to the trenches early in 1855, William Scarlett was involved in all the phases of the siege of Sebastopol until its fall in September 1855. The survival of 139 previously unpublished letters record Scarlett’s deeds and thoughts. Written to nineteen different correspondents, and deliberately intended by him to form a personal account of his rôle in the war, his letters provide a forceful commentary on the successes and failures of the British army in the East. His life before and after the war is well recorded. Becoming the third Lord Abinger in 1861, Scarlett was the second English peer to marry an American. He built a castle in Scotland, where Queen Victoria stayed in 1873, and two of his daughters became notable suffragettes.

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