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Author :General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson GCB GCVO Publisher :Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN 13 :1782899200 Total Pages :808 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (828 download)
Book Synopsis Seventy-One Years Of A Guardsman’s Life [Illustrated Edition] by : General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson GCB GCVO
Download or read book Seventy-One Years Of A Guardsman’s Life [Illustrated Edition] written by General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson GCB GCVO and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War] At a regimental gathering following Sir George Higginson’s funeral one officer remarked to another that no-one could remember the regiment without Sir George present. It is hardly surprising as General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson GCB, GCVO had lived for 101 years, the longest of any British General, and as the title of his autobiography indicates the majority of those years in the Grenadier Guards. General Higginson’s life seemed to be in fact two lives; the first in active service with the British army, he would see action in many parts of the world. He would achieve great fame as a hero of the Crimean War and his reminiscences of which forms the greater part of this volume. The Author travelled out to the Crimea as adjutant of the 3rd Battalion; and fought at the battles at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman at which he was greatly distinguished. His details of the siege and fall of Sebastopol are among the best that survive. He details in full the filthy unsanitary conditions, inept command, and cholera that the British soldiers had to endure, not to mention the shot and shell of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. Following his military retirement in 1893 at the ripe age of 67 and then embarked on career as advisor to Queen Victoria, travelling dignitary as far afield as America and Russia and figurehead of the regime. A renowned and statesmanlike figure he died in 1927 mourned by all who knew him. A fascinating autobiography.
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