Queen Victoria's Little Wars

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Medals -- Map -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Opening Shots of the Reign, 1837-42 -- 2 War in China, 1840-54 -- 3 Sind and Sikhs: a Napier and a Gough, 1843-45 -- 4 The First Sikh War, 1845-46 -- 5 The Second Sikh War, 1848-49 -- 6 Other Wars in Other Places, 1848-54 -- 7 Crimea: The Light Brigade and All That, 1854-55 -- 8 Mutiny in India, 1857 -- 9 The Dangerous Days, 1857 -- 10 The Siege and Relief of Lucknow, 1857 -- 11 Final Relief of Lucknow and End of the Mutiny, 1857-58 -- 12 China and Elsewhere, 1858-61 -- 13 The North-West Frontier, 1855-63 -- 14 The Umbeyla Campaign, 1863 -- 15 Africa, 1863-68 -- 16 Wolseley: Red River and Army Reform, 1870-73 -- 17 Wolseley in Ashantiland, 1873-74 -- 18 Roberts's War, 1878-79 -- 19 From Kabul to Kandahar, 1879-80 -- 20 Zulus, 1878-79 -- 21 Incidents in the Zulu War, 1879 -- 22 Poor Sir George Colley, 1881 -- 23 Wolseley versus Arabi and the Queen, 1881-82 -- 24 The Sudan I: Heroes in Distress, 1883-84 -- 25 The Sudan II: Too Late! 1884-85 -- 26 Troubles on the Empire's Fringes: Manipur and Chitral, 1890-95 -- 27 The Frontier Aflame, 1897 -- 28 Tirah, 1897-98 -- 29 Back to the Sudan, 1896-98 -- 30 The Boer War I: 1899 -- 31 The Boer War II: 1900 -- Appendix I The British Regiment -- Appendix II The Little Wars -- Appendix III Some British Orders -- Bibliography.