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General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B., Died at Jacksonville, in Florida, on February 4Th, 1870 '^^m WINDHAM' i:\x. :^R:fi ?^-' . V utt^ h? \^C>tf KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Ltd. Foreign BookbindTngs in the British Museum. Illustrations of more than Sixty Examples, selected on account of their beauty or historical interest. With an Introduction and Descriptions by W. Y. Fletcher, F.S.A. (Late Assistant- Keeper, Department of Printed Books, British Museum). The Plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen. Folio. Limited to 500 copies. Price £3 3s. net. English Bindings in the British Museum. Uniform with the above. By W. Y. Fletcher, F.S.A. With some Sixty Examples, printed by W. Griggs. Folio. Limited to 500 copies. A very few remain. Price £3 3s. net. Every-Day Characters. By Winthrop Mackworth Praed. Pro- fusely Illustrated by Cecil Aldin, with a specially designed cover in colours. Crown 4to, 6s. The Chaurapanchasika. 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Grinnell- Milne, President of the Sydenham Branch of the Navy League. With Portrait, Map, and six Plans of important Actions. Large Post ivo. 10s. td. London : Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road. L THE CRIMEAN DIARY AND LETTERS OF LIEUT. -GENERAL SIR CHARLES ASH WINDHAM, K.C.B. WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON HIS SERVICES DURING THE INDIAN MUTINY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL THE WHOLE EDITED BY MAJOR HUGH PEARSE East Surrey Regiment LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Ltd. PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1897 2)et)icateO BY PERMISSION TO FIELD-MARSHAL H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G. PREFACE AN article which appeared a short time ago in one of the leading weekly journals, also the suggestion of many friends, first prompted me to publish my late father's Crimean Correspondence and Extracts from his Diary. I thought that, as a sailor, I could not do justice to the subject, and my friend Major Hugh Pearse kindly undertook to edit the letters, and to him I return my warmest thanks. The veteran, Sir William Russell—and I take it, no higher Crimean authority exists — most kindly undertook to write the opening chapter; and I cannot find words to express how deeply touched I have been by the interest he has taken in the book. The letters are those of a man who occupied a very responsible position, and who had ample opportunities of forming a correct judgment. Naturally, I do not wish to enter into any personal controversy with regard to my father's conduct either in the Crimea or in India. I am perfectly satisfied to leave the former in the hands of Sir William Russell, and the latter to the dictum of that most accurate and able historian. Colonel Malleson, who, in reference to the siege of X PREFACE Cawnpore by the Gwalior Contingent, has placed it upon record as his deliberate opinion, that " Windham saved India." I may, however, be allowed to borrow one sentence from Lord Wolseley's Life of Marlborough. He says, "We must judge of what the public thought of that Great Soldier at the timer What the public thought of a much humbler soldier at the time of the Crimea is well known, for by only a few votes in the Cabinet did he fail to be made Commander - in - Chief (vide Greville Memoirs and Colonel CampbelPs Letters from the Crimea). If this small book is appreciated by the few friends now living of an old soldier who ever strove to do his duty well and nobly, often under the most trying circumstances, I shall feel more than repaid. Thinking it might interest old Norfolk neighbours, I have appended a short account of Felbrigg—(the old seat of the Windhams)—taken from the Norfolk Daily Standard ; also two letters from two of my father's most valued friends. CHARLES WINDHAM, Captain Royal A^avy. CONTENTS PACK Preface by Sir William Howard Russell . i The Crimean Diary . ... 14 The Indian Mutiny . 215 Appendix—Letters . 257 — PREFACE SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL. FEW days after the allies occupied the plateau on A the south of Sebastopol— it was, I think, on the 27th or 28th of September— I rode up from Balaclava to take a look at the city, on which we were destined to gaze for so many eventful months ; and, as I was cross- ing from the French pickets on our left, I came upon a part of the Fourth Division, on their march to take up their camping-ground on one of the ridges over the ravine which runs from the Great Harbour. They were in charge of a staff officer whom I remarked, when the army left the Belbek, warmly expostulating with Lord Raglan's Staff, on account of the orders which had been given for the Fourth Division to remain on the river that night.
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