Sound Advance: Experiences of an Officer of HM 50th Regt. in Australia, Burma and the Gwalior War in India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781846771422)

The conquest of India -- the destruction of the Mahrattas This is continuing the story of Joseph Anderson, whose early career during the Napoleonic Wars was told in the Leonaur book Fighting Napoleon's Empire. At the commencement of this book we fifi nd Anderson engaged as the Governor of a prison colony in Australia before he is posted to India. There, with the 50th Regt. of Foot, he is soon sent to Burma. Through Anderson's writing we are given a view of military life and campaigning in the early Victorian period, in which many familiar personalities and regiments feature. In 1843 Anderson, by now a Brigadier, was engaged in the Gwalior War against the Mahrattas at the Battle of Punniar.

Author: Joseph Anderson
ISBN-10: 1846771420
ISBN-13: 9781846771422
Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d