Major Goliah O’Grady Gahagan of the East India Company’s irregular horse wants the public to know exactly who he is. He then recounts his deeds at Allyghur and Laswaree, sieges, sorties, famines and escapes, each more outrageous than the last, in a voice of unshakable self-admiration.
Early Thackeray burlesque of military memoirs in the spirit of Baron Munchausen, with the imperial attitudes of the 1830s. Download the free EPUB.