| Military Service and Adventures in the Far East 2 Volume Set: Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6 Contributor(s): MacKinnon, Daniel Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108045804 ISBN-13: 9781108045803 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2012 Click for more in this series: Cambridge Library Collection - History |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other) - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History |
| Physical Information: 1.46" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" L (1.92 lbs) 618 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Features: Illustrated |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This two-volume work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer Daniel Henry Mackinnon (1813-84) describes his military service in India, in the campaigns against the Afghans in 1839 and the Sikhs in 1845-6. In the first edition, reissued here, the author is referred to only as 'a cavalry officer', but in the second edition of 1849, Mackinnon, a career soldier and writer, abandons his anonymity. The work begins with a lively account of the Andaman Islands, before 'arrival in India' at Calcutta and a long march past the foothills of the Himalayas to the North-West Frontier province. Mackinnon took part in the decisive battle of Ghazni in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and in all the major engagements of the Anglo-Sikh War, providing eye-witness accounts of the fighting, though his description of the political and diplomatic conflicts which preceded the outbreak of of both wars is somewhat simplistic, and inevitably Anglophile. |
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