A History of the Indian Mutiny, Reviewed, Vol. 1: Illustrated From Original Documents (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Forrest, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330990927 ISBN 13: 9781330990926

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A History of the Indian Mutiny, Reviewed, Vol. 1: Illustrated From Original Documents It is on the sure ground of official documents that I have mainly relied, but they have been fortified by the contemporary literature, which is both varied and abundant. A large number of private letters and diaries have been placed at my disposal, and it has been my anxious care to draw from them useful material by separating facts and just inferences from matters and opinions honestly given as testified by the senses of the writer, but in truth founded on the current statements and warped feelings of the hour. Besides the printed matter and the manuscript documents, I have had the advantage of conversation with many who witnessed the transactions. Military operations, however, extend over so wide a field that no actor can have a personal knowledge of all the circumstances. By putting together fragments of information which I have received from several witnesses, marking where they agree and where they differ, and comparing them with the whole collection of written statements, I have endeavoured to arrive at a complete and correct conception of the combination of scenes which a battle or the storming of a fortress presents. My own conceptions have been corrected by the technical and sagacious criticisms of military experts, and the work of a civilian on the operations of war is therefore offered with less fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfecti

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330990927
• ISBN 13: 9781330990926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 586