Preface [v-vi]
[v] In the following pages – intended, primarily, for young people, my object has been to sketch the careers of the leading Warriors and Statesmen by whose genius and heroism British rule was established in India; to describe the labours of zealous Missionary-pioneers in that land; and, finally, to tell of some of the men who, when the existence of the Empire was imperiled by the great Sepoy Mutiny, defended it with such valour and success. No attempt hast been made to give full biographies, but I have aimed rather to narrate a series of Stories which, while presenting a view of events in India from the time of Clive downwards, shall, [vi] particulary, picture the Heroes themselves and their more striking achievements. Besides the authorities mentioned in the text, I desire to express indebtedness for historical information to the “History of India,” by Mr. Marshman – whose spelling of Indian names I have in the main adopted – and to Mr. Sewell’s “Analytical History of India.”
E.F.
Contents
Warriors and Statesmen
I. Lord Clive 9
II. Warren Hastings 42
III. Lord Cornwallis 69
IV. Lord Wellesley 84
V. Eldred Pottinger and Sir Alexander Burnes 100
VI. Sir Charles Napier 126
Soldiers of the Cross
I. William Carey 152
II. Henry Martyn 169
III. Alexander Duff 185
Men of the Mutiny
I. The Lawrences 202
II. Sir Henry Havelock and Sir James Outram 223
III. Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde 242
After the Mutiny 253