The Great Indian Mutiny: Colin Campbell and the Campaign at Lucknow

by Bruce Watson

In 1857-1858, rebels in northern India recruited tens of thousands of civilian volunteers in a mutiny that threatened to engulf the entire subcontinent. This study explores a fundamental question never explicitly investigated in histories of the mutiny: How could a vastly outnumbered British army, with dangerously extended lines of supply and reinforcement, defeat so large a force on its home ground? Watson addresses the problem by focusing on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275938344
• ISBN13: 9780275938345
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"