PREFACE

MANY of the numerous correspondents who have
assisted me in amplifying the Articles, published
in the Times^ October 1907, expressed the hope that
my narrative would be republished in book form,
and I have now made it a short history of the prin¬
cipal events in India from 1857-1859. In re-sub¬
mitting the studies to the Public I have practically
re-written the chapters concerning the operations before
Dehli; its Siege, and Capture, dealing more fully with
the gallant feats of the Bengal Engineers; and I have
incorporated the suggestions from correspondents, which
I have been able to verify.

I am grateful to the Home, Colonial, and India
Press for their appreciation of the Articles, not only
as regards the style of the narrative, but of my efforts
to write fairly of the contending Races.

General Sir Digby Barker, K.C.B., who accompanied
Sir Henry Havelock in his Relief of the Residency
of Lucknow, and was the first man to enter the
Baillie Guard intrenchment through an embrasure,
after some suggestions for " the very excellent history,"
wrote: "2nd January, 1908. I think your history
is wonderfully accurate and complete, as regards the
events in which I took part."