Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 2 (of 2) / Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6.

A cavalry officer's memoir recounts journeys across India and campaigns on the north-western frontier, blending travel narrative, camp life, and battlefield reportage. It follows marches, logistics, and monsoon-era travel, offers vivid scenes of jungle crossings and cantonment routine, and gives close, operational accounts of engagements with the Afghan and Sikh forces, including descriptions of troop movements, sieges, and pitched battles. Interwoven are reflections on military organisation, steam communication and transport, diplomatic encounters during the advance to Lahore, and concluding observations on the campaign outcomes and their likely effects.