Reminiscences of Forty-Three Years in India
Including the Cabul Disasters, Captivities in Affghanistan and the Punjaub, and a Narrative of the Mutinies in Rajputana

This 1874 book is a memoir of the long and active service in India of General Sir George Lawrence.

George Lawrence (Author), William Edwards (Edited by)

9781108046374, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 July 2012

334 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 kg

Written by General Sir George St Patrick Lawrence (1804–84) of the British Indian Army, this 1874 book is a memoir of his long and active service in India. The son of a distinguished officer in the army of the East India Company, he arrived in India in 1821, and was a participant in all the major military encounters of the period, including the Anglo-Afghan Wars, where he was involved in the 'Cabul disaster' and later narrowly avoided execution as a hostage, the Anglo-Sikh wars, and the Indian Mutiny, during which he and his family survived great danger. Lawrence, whose health had been undermined during the Mutiny, resigned from the army and returned to England in 1864. He entrusted his letters and diaries to William Edwards of the Bengal Civil Service, who compiled the work from these sources, and supplies a brief overview of Lawrence's career in his preface.

Preface
1. Receive appointment and proceed to India
2. Storm and capture of Ghuznee
3. Apparently tranquil state of Affghanistan
4. Return of Shah Soojah to Cabul
5. Surrender of the Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan
6. Despatch of a force under General Sale to Jellalabad
7. Position of the Cabul Cantonments
8. Post of Charèkar taken and its garrison destroyed
9. Military authorities propose to retreat
10. Particulars of Sir W. Macnaghten's murder
11. Recover my liberty
12. Renewed attack on our troops
13. March from Jugdulluck to Punjsheir River
14. Death of Le Geyt
15. Arrive at the fort of Shewakhee
16. The hostages join us at Shewakhee
17. Our army withdrawn from Affghanistan
18. Sir F. Currie appointed Resident at Lahore
19. Report to Resident mutiny of the Peshawur troops
20. State of Mewwar in Rajpootana
21. Major Burton and his two sons proceed to Kotah
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]