Biographies & Memoirs / Autobiography / Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith in two volumes by Sir Harry Smith G C Moore Smith

• Book Title: Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith in two volumes
• Author: Sir Harry Smith G C Moore Smith
• ISBN: MW005555119
• Publisher: John Murray
• Year Published: 1901
• Our Price: £385.00 GBP ($635.25 USD)
• Description: John Murray 1901, first edition: two volumes with red cloth hardcovers, gilt crests to front, gilt lettering to spines: approximately 5.8 x 9 inches tall: Volume 1, 382 pages: volume 2, 434 pages including index: black and white portraits, illustrations, and maps . Synopsis: An autobiographical account of Sir Harry Smith's life 1787 -- 1846 edited by G.C Moore Smith, with the latter's additional account of the period 1846 -- 1860. Sir Harry Smith, originality received into the Whittlesea troupe of the Yeomanry Cavalry in 1804, served in the Peninsular War, the Washington Expedition, the New Orleans Expedition, the Waterloo Campaign, Occupied France, Glasgow, , Nova Scotia, Jamaica, the Cape of Good Hope, India, the Sikh War, and as a Member of the Home Staff. During this time he was ADC to Lieutenant-General Sir James Kempt, Governor of Nova Scotia:; DQMG under Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, Governor of Jamaica; Chief of staff under Sir Benjamin D'Urbin in The Kafir War; AG to her Majesty's forces under Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Nicolls, and Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough, Commanders in Chief successively in India: In Command of the First Division of Infantry in the Sikh War; Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope; In Command of the Western Military District and In Command of the Northern and Midland Military Dstricts when a Member of the Home Staff. He was awarded the Order of the Bath in the following steps: -- C.B. for Waterloo. KCB from Maharajpore. GCB for Aliwal and Sobraon. He gives an account of his extraordinary activities in an easy readable style, including personal family details; the daily events of a soldiers life in the field ; the excitements of success and hardships of defeat , and the momentous events he witnessed. Condition: -- Volume 1: Spine worn and reattached: upper and lower edges of spine damaged: endpapers and frontispiece foxed: contents very clean: binding firm. Volume 2: upper and lower edge of spine worn: endpapers and frontispiece foxed: contents very clean: binding firm. Overall good and collectable
• Condition: Collectable- Good
• Dustcover: No
• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Used Books

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