Biographical Notes of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THIED PEEIOD: 1850-1860 The Second Burmese War, 1852-53--The Indian Mutiny, 1857-59--Lists of officers engaged--Changes in organisation of the Corps and Promotions. Biographical notices of General Sir John Cheape, G.C.B., Major-General Sir Frederick Abbott, Lieutenant-Colonel John Anderson, Captain George W. Fulton, Captain Arthur William Garnett, Colonel Bichard Baird Smith, C.B., Lieutenant Duncan Home, V.C., Lieutenant Philip Salkeld, V.C. In the second Burmese War of 1852-53, the following officers of the Bengal Engineers were employed, viz.: Brigadier-General Sir John Cheape, K.C.B., Captain Alexander Fraser (afterwards General and Colonel-Commandant), Captain H. Drummond, Lieutenant G. A. Austen, Captain C. D. Newmarch, Captain H. Fraser, Lieutenant H. Yule, Lieutenant G. A. Craster, Lieutenant W. S. Trevor, Lieutenant E. C. S. Williams (afterwards General Sir E. Williams, K.C.I.E.) and Lieutenant Leverton Donaldson, who was killed in action near Rangoon on April 12, 1853. The army was under the command of Major-General Sir John Cheape, K.C.B., under whose able and skilful direction the campaign was brought to a successful conclusion in March 1853. A short account of portions of this campaign will be found in the notice of Sir John Cheape's services. We now come to the year 1857, in which occurred the greatest' Indian event of the century: the Mutiny of the Native Army, which shook our Indian Empire to its foundations, when the whole of the Bengal Army, with the exception of a few regiments, revolted, and which resulted in the abolition of the East India Company, and the placing of the government of the country directly under the Queen, with a Viceroy appointed by Her Majesty's Government and an Indian Council and Secretary of State for India in Lond...