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English Men of Action

SIR CHARLES NAPIER

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SIR CHARLES NAPIER.

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SIR CHARLES NAPIER

BY

COLONEL SIR WILLIAM F. BUTLER

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1890

All rights reserved

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I   PAGE The Home at Celbridge—First Commission 1   CHAPTER II Early Service—The Peninsula 14   CHAPTER III Corunna 27   CHAPTER IV The Peninsula in 1810-11—Bermuda—America—Royal Military College 46   CHAPTER V Cephalonia 62   CHAPTER VI Out of Harness 75 [Pg vi]  CHAPTER VII Command of the Northern District 86   CHAPTER VIII India—The War in Scinde 98   CHAPTER IX The Battle of Meanee 117   CHAPTER X The Morrow of Meanee—The Action at Dubba 136   CHAPTER XI The Administration of Scinde 152   CHAPTER XII England—1848 to 1849 175   CHAPTER XIII Commander-in-Chief in India 188   CHAPTER XIV Home—Last Illness—Death 203

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