Compiled for Beeton’s Boy’s Own Library, this survey describes the regiments of the British Army, from the Guards and the Engineers to the Royal Welsh and the Highlanders, and retells the deeds for which men won the Victoria Cross in the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny and other campaigns. Its imperial attitudes are those of the 1860s and 1870s.
A period document of Victorian military pride, useful to anyone researching the early Victoria Cross. Download the free EPUB.