Crimean War: Memoirs of the Brave: A Brief Account of the Battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman with Biographies of the Killed and a List of the Wounded, by James Gibson, Late of Sidney Sussex College
by Gibson, James
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London, England: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1855. 8.2 x 12.3 cm. This little book about Crimean War is dedicated to Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Secretary at War. This edition includes letter from ""our Most Gracious Queen"" noting accounts of Miss Nightingale and Mrs. Bracebridge, and expressing her sympathy to families of those lost and wounded. Letter is dated Christmas, 1854, from Windsor. Brief accounts of battles of Alma, first Allied victory; Balaklava, second victory with great disaster to British troops; and Inkerman, called ""the soldier's battle"". Memoirs of officers killed include Major-General Henry William Adams; Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Pakenham (nephew of Sir Edward Pakenham who fell before New Orleans); Memoirs of some 200 officers killed provide excellent biographical data and relate units men belonged to, family connection, peerage, and more. Also list of officers wounded; chronology of incidents of the war. 16mo. Attractive purple moir silk on board with crest and crossed flags of France and Great Britain, and title. Covers warped, cloth missing from spine, edges frayed, dampstain on end papers. Gilt-edged pages. Fair. . Catalogs: History/Biography.
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- Crimean War: Memoirs of the Brave: A Brief Account of the Battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman with Biographies of the Killed and a List of the Wounded, by James Gibson, Late of Sidney Sussex College
- Author
- Gibson, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1855
- Pages
- 148 pp
- Size
- 8.2 x 12.3 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- History/Biography;
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