Название: The Indian Mutiny
Автор: Christopher Wilkinson-Latham
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Men at Arms/67
Год: 1994
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 18 Mb
Язык: English
On the 24 April 1855, Colonel Carmichael Smyth held a parade of the ninety skirmishers of the 3rd Light Cavalry of the Bengal Army at Meerut, some 30 miles from Delhi. The disastrous events that followed sparked an almost wholesale mutiny of the Honourable East India Company's Bengal Native Army. Had the ensuing uprising succeeded, it would have threatened the validity of the entire British Empire. As it was the Mutiny witnessed several tragic and bloody events, from the original incident in Meerut to the horrifying siege of Cawnpore. Christopher Wilikinson-Latham details the history of the conflict, from its beginnings to ultimate resolution.