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Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws led him into conflict with politicians and diplomats running the war, who accused him of inciting mutiny. Parliament, newspapers and the law courts then became his chosen battlefields as he fought to clear his name and return to duty. By bringing Beatson s life and career into sharper focus, Richard Stevenson connects wide-ranging themes in Victorian military and imperial history in a fresh and accessible way."
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Table of contents
- Author Bibliography
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Prologue: Friday the Thirteenth: An Action for Slander
- 1 The Beatsons of Kilrie: The High Road to India
- 2 The Passage to India
- 3 The Young Sahib
- 4 Spanish Interlude: With the British Auxiliary Legion
- 5 First Command: The Bundlecund Legion
- 6 Following the Elephant
- 7 The Heights of Trukki
- 8 In the Nizam’s Dominions
- 9 Shemshi Pasha on the Danube
- 10 ‘The Most Glorious Thing I Ever Saw’
- 11 Dardanelles Camp
- 12 The Grand Bozook
- 13 Descent into Farce
- 14 The Man in the Golden Coat
- 15 Return to India
- 16 Hunting Tantya Tope
- 17 Talk of the Town
- 18 Soldiering On: A Military Impresario
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Plates
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