Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences Of The Great Sepoy Revolt Of 1857 [Illustrated Edition]

Colonel Alfred Robert Davidson MacKenzie

• Publisher: Normanby Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781782899174
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
Colonel MacKenzie was only a young subaltern of three years' service when the great Sepoy Mutiny broke out in 1857. His regiment, the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry stationed in Meerut, was one of the worst effected and he and his fellow British officers had to fight for their lives as the native soldiers rioted. Having escaped narrowly from his erstwhile soldiers he rallied to the main garrison in Meerut, the rebels fled toward Delhi. He joined in the expedition to re-capture Delhi and relates his recollections with great spirit, there was no rest for the gallant young lieutenant as he joined in the effort to relieve Lucknow. During the last of the fighting his commanding officer, Captain Sanford, was killed and MacKenzie relates his hero's death with great empathy.
After the mutiny MacKenzie achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1878 and led his troops in the Second Afghan War, 1879-80. Promoted to full colonel four years later, he served as honorary ADC to Lansdowne, the Viceroy of India.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure 1 - Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, the Governor-General of India during the rebellion.

Figure 2 - Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856, who devised the Doctrine of Lapse.

Figure 3 - Lakshmibai, The Rani of Maratha-ruled Jhansi, one of the principal leaders of the rebellion who earlier had lost her kingdom as a result of the Doctrine of Lapse.

Figure 4 - Bahadur Shah II - aka Zafar

Figure 5 - Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, founder of the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College, later the Aligarh Muslim University, wrote one of the early critiques, The Causes of the Indian Mutiny, in 1859.

Figure 6 - The Flagstaff Tower, Delhi, where the European survivors of the rebellion gathered on 11 May 1857

Figure 7 - Wikipedia map of the Indian Revolt

Key

Rebellious States:

Jhajjar, Dadri, Farukhnagar and Bahadurgarh

Amjhera

Shagarh

Biaj Raghogarh

Singhbum

Nargund

Shorapur

States aiding the British:

Kashmir (Independent Kingdom)

Kapurthala

Patiala

Sirmur

Bik...

Table of contents

• Title page
• DEDICATION
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE.
• I. - THE OUTBREAK.
• II. - SKIRMISHING.
• III - BEFORE DELHI.
• IV. - STORMING THE CITY.
• V. - CAPTURE OF JHUJJUR.
• VI. - EN ROUTE FOR LUCKNOW.
• VII. - DILKHOOSHA.
• VIII. - LUCKNOW.
• IX. - A HERO’S DEATH.
• NOTE.
• OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
• ILLUSTRATIONS