SOLDIERS

OF

THE VICTORIAN AGE

VOLUME I

Soldiers

OF

The Victorian Age

BY

CHARLES RATHBONE LOW

(I.N., F.R.G.S.)

AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY,” MEMOIR OF SIR GARNET WOLSELEY," &c. &c

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME I

London

CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED, 193, PICCADILLY

1880

[All rights reserved]

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,

BREAD STREET HILL.

THIS WORK,

RECORDING MANY REMARKABLE PASSAGES IN THE HISTORY OF

Her Majesty's Army,

AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE LIVES OF SOME OF

THE MOST DISTINGUISHED COMMANDERS OF HER GLORIOUS REIGN

IS DEDICATED, BY SPECIAL PERMISSION,

TO THEIR COMRADE,

His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, K.G.,

BY

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S OBEDIENT SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.