Sir John Adye served for decades in the Royal Artillery, and these memoirs, published in 1895, follow him through peacetime soldiering to the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the frontier fighting against the hill tribes of Swat and Bajour, and the Egyptian campaign of 1882. He adds his views on army organisation and reform.
A senior Victorian officer’s measured account of the empire’s wars from the inside. Download the free EPUB.