Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief   By: Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts (1832-1914)

PUBLISHED JANUARY 4, 1897.

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FORTY ONE YEARS IN INDIA

FROM

Subaltern to Commander in Chief

BY

FIELD MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR V.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.

[Illustration: Seal]

FIRST EDITION IN ONE VOLUME

WITH FORTY ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1898 [ All rights reserved ]

A NEW EDITION, BEING THE TWENTY NINTH

TO THE COUNTRY TO WHICH I AM SO PROUD OF BELONGING,

TO THE ARMY TO WHICH I AM SO DEEPLY INDEBTED,

AND TO MY WIFE,

WITHOUT WHOSE LOVING HELP

MY 'FORTY ONE YEARS IN INDIA'

COULD NOT BE THE HAPPY RETROSPECT IT IS,

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.