9781108045780 - Military Service and Adventures in the Far East, Volume 1: Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6 (Cambridge Libra... (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. 2012. Paperback. This two-volume work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer Daniel Mackinnon, describes his part in the Anglo-Afghan and Anglo-Sikh wars. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; BM; HBJF; HBW; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446. Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History. 320 pages, 1 map. This two-volume work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer Daniel Mackinnon, describes his part in the Anglo-Afghan and Anglo-Sikh wars. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; BM; HBJF; HBW; JWLF. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight: 446. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This two-volume work, published in 1847 by cavalry officer Daniel Henry Mackinnon (1813-84) describes his military service in India, in the campaigns against the Afghans in 1839 and the Sikhs in 1845-6. In the first edition, reissued here, the author is referred to only as 'a cavalry officer', but in the second edition of 1849, Mackinnon, a career soldier and writer, abandons his anonymity. Volume 1 begins with a lively account of the Andaman Islands, before 'arrival in India' at Calcutta and a long march past the foothills of the Himalayas to the North-West Frontier province. Mackinnon fought at the decisive battle of Ghuzni in the First Anglo-Afghan War, and provides an eye-witness account of the storming of the city, though his description of the political and diplomatic conflicts which preceded the outbreak of the wars is somewhat simplistic, and inevitably Anglophile.