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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This book gives an account of one of these regiments the 16th-at the time of the action described in these pages the only lancer regiment still to wear scarlet jackets-from the recruitment and training of the soldiers in the early 1840s. Far from Britain the Empire was dominating the Indian Sub-Continent and was about to clash with the formidable kingdom of the Sikhs in the Punjab. It is the journey to this fateful conflict-the First Sikh War-to which Donald Featherstone devotes his narrative. We join the 16th on campaign with Paddy Gough’s army on the banks of the Sutlej; there under the brilliant generalship of Sir Harry Smith they meet their destiny at the battle of Aliwal. (SP)