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Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts From the Letters of the Late Major W. S. R. Hodson, B. A.

By William Stephen Raikes Hodson

2019-02-27 00:13:12

Excerpt.......But it is time for us to turn from the book to the man, and we think our readers will thank us for giving them the best picture which our space will allow of him and his work, as nearly as may be in his own words; only begging them to b ... Read more
Excerpt.......But it is time for us to turn from the book to the man, and we think our readers will thank us for giving them the best picture which our space will allow of him and his work, as nearly as may be in his own words; only begging them to bear in mind that these letters were written in the strictest confidence to his nearest relations, and that so far from wishing to make his own deeds known during his life, he resolutely refused to allow his letters to be made public. Less

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File size346.325 KB
Print pages891
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1331012498
William Stephen Raikes Hodson (19 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was a British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, commonly referred to as the Indian Mutiny or the Se...

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