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DURAND (H.M., CSI, Bengal Civil Service)
The Life of Major-General Sir Henry Marion Durand, KCSI, CB, of the Royal Engineers.
1st Ed., Volume I only: viii+476pp., portrait frontis. W.H. Allen.
1883
#69000
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Rare memoirs. Please note Vol. I only here offered, which is the biographical volume whereas Vol. II consisted mainly of essays & letters. Includes First Afghan War when he headed the party that blew up the Kabul Gate at Ghaznee; then in 2nd Sikh War 1848-49 (Chillianwala, Gujerat &c.), Burmese War 1852 &c. He was killed in an accident in 1871 when, in an elephant howdah the beast passed under a low gateway & he was crushed to the ground. Buckland (Dictionary of Indian Biography) wrote: "No officer in India at the time had a greater reputation for experience, high principles, force of character; he held strong views & expressed them strongly." Near contemp. half red morocco, with raised bands to gilt sp. & marbled sides & endpapers by Mudies, with armorial bookplate & ownership inscrip. of Ernest N. Pedder, of the 13th Hussars & another of Giulio Gelardi. Nice copy & inexpensive text. See illustration on our website.
£75
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