Colonel G. B. Malleson - The Decisive Battles of India From 1746 To 1849 Inclusive - 1888

Presentation copy with gilt armorial crest to cover.
Full red leather with gilt dentlleborders.
Gilt raised bands to spine.
Black morocco title.
Gilt decorative panels.
Marbled endpapers and page-blocks.

Very scarce copy.

xxxii, 495 pages
Full-page photogravure portrait with tissue-guard.
4 fold-out maps.
1 large fold-old map at rear.

Colonel G. B. Malleson brings his scientific understanding
of the military events that encompass 100 years of British
involvement in India, prior to the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
He sets out the causes that led to each battle,and the
connection to each successive war. Malleson consulted
original documents and writings, including some that were
unpublished, when compiling this work, it is also to be
borne in mind that many of the battles we still in living
memory when this important work was published.

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