1901, ISBN: cb3127a5e4aea911f183d74d29953846

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1901, Very Good. First Edition. First impression. I… More...

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1901, Very Good. First Edition. First impression. Illustrated with eight black and white plates, including tissue-guarded frontispiece showing: Field-Marshall, Earl Roberts, V.C., G.C.B., from an engraving by W.W. Ouless, R.A., and five black and white text-maps, as called for. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and medallion illustration to front board. Top edge of text-block gilt. Pages clean. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and bumped. Spine slightly creased but tight. ***196mm x138mm. 384 pages including index plus eight-page publisher's advertisements to rear. The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was a rebellion against British rule by a large part of the Bengal army in India. It is also called the Sepoy Revolt because Indian troops in the British-controlled army were called sepoys. ***Chapters: I. Mungul Pandy; II. Delhi; III. Stamping out Mutiny; IV. Cawnpore: The Siege; V. Cawnpore: The Murder Ghaut; VI. Lucknow and Sir Henry Lawrence; VII. Lucknow and Havelock; VIII. Lucknow and Sir Colin Campbell; IX. The Sepoy in the Open; X. Delhi: How the Ridge was Held; XI. Delhi: The Leap on the City; XII. Delhi: Retribution; XIII. The Storming of Lucknow; Index. ***'Some of the revolting regiments, it is satisfactory to know, had very distressful experiences. They found that mutiny was a bad investment. Let the tale of the 55th, for example, be told. The regiment broke into open mutiny at Mardan on May 22, fired on their officers, and marched off to the hills with the regimental colours and treasure. Its colonel, Spottiswood, blew his brains in mingled grief and despair when he saw his "faithful" Sepoys in open revolt. ***Meanwhile, the most menacing figure in all the great drama of the mutiny - that of Nicholson - made his appearance on the track of the mutineers. Nicholson overtook them on the 24th, after a ride of seventy miles, slew 150, captured another 150 with the stolen colours, and promptly executed forty of his prisoners by blowing them from his guns. The rest of the broken regiment crossed the border, were hunted down by the hill-tribes fell into the hands of Mohammedan fanatics.' (Quote from page 63, Chapter II). ***First impression of the true first edition, complete with all eight black and white plates and five text-maps., Smith Elder & Co, 1901, 3<