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{{War|name=Indian Mutiny |dates=10 May 1857-19 April 1959 1859 |image= |location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Gangetic_Plain Gangetic Plain] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_India Central India] |combatant1=[[British Army]]<br>[[East India Company Armies]] |combatant2=[[Bengal Presidency]] regiments |result= Rebellion crushed|medal=[http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/united-kingdom117.htm Indian Mutiny Medal]<br>Clasps: Delhi, Defence of Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Lucknow, Central India| category= |link1=[[:Category:Delhi Campaign |Delhi Campaign]]<br>[[:Category:Events at Cawnpore|Events at Cawnpore]]<br>[[:Category:Havelock's Campaign|Havelock's Campaign]]<br>[[:Category:Showers' Movable Column|Showers' Movable Column]]<br>[[:Category:Greathed's Movable Column|Greathed's Movable Column]]<br>[[:Category:Seaton's Movable Column|Seaton's Movable Column]]<br>[[:Category:Trans-Gogra Campaign|Trans-Gogra Campaign]]<br>[[:Category:Oude Campaign|Oude Campaign]]<br>[[:Category:Central India Campaign|Central India Campaign]]<br>[[:Category:Rohilcund Campaign|Rohilcund Campaign]]}}
== Preamble ==
==FIBIS resources==
*FIBIS database:[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=169&s_id=67 Indian Mutiny Medal Roll (British Forces) 1857-1859] - a medal roll transcription with over 50,000 names of [[British Army]] soldiers awarded medals*FIBIS database:[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=351&s_id=493 Supplement to The London Gazette] - around 2000 names of Europeans killed or wounded by disaffected soldiers or local residents as reported in the London Gazette*FIBIS database:[httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=226&s_id=0 The Diary of a Medical Officer during the Great Indian Mutiny]*FIBIS database: [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1315 Indian Mutiny 1857-59 - Victoria Cross Awards] Victoria Crosses awarded during the Indian Mutiny 1857-59 from the book War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army by Captain T C Anderson, 1863
==Casualties==
*[http://www.usiofindia.org/publications/Journal/Archives/ "Reflections from Lucknow on the Great Uprising of 1857"] by Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones from the United Service Institution of India website. Scroll and select "October 2005-December 2005", then scroll to the article. Retrieved 12 October 2014
*[http://sites.google.com/site/laurieletters/1-introduction Irregular Correspondence] is a collection of letters by the three eldest sons of John and Eliza Laurie, to their parents. Includes the letters from India 1858-1861, of Lieutenant Julius Laurie of the 34th Foot. (Website by William Dyson-Laurie)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170726072557/http://www.leighanddistricthistory.com/index.php/law/indian-mutiny-1857-1858 Leigh and District History: Indian Mutiny 1857-1858], now an archived webpage. Personal accounts from soldiers in India, sent to family in the Leigh District, Greater Manchester, England. The account by James Ramsdale, stated to be of the "14th Battalion Royal Infantry", appears to be a transcription error - it is considered he was actually in No. 3 Coy/14th Bn. Royal Artillery.<ref>Snook, Mike. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170819034041/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11969&sid=132751e5450348d8a925c2d2a7154561#p63140 How did new troops get to Roorkee in 1858?] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 3 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017, now archived.</ref>
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44225863 "Three Letters From The Indian Mutiny"] by Brian Robson. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 77, No. 310 (Summer 1999), pp. 100-105. jstor.org. Read online for free, but registration with jstor.org required, see [[Miscellaneous tips]] for more details. Three letters from Rifleman Francis Foster of the [[Rifle Brigade]], dating from the latter phases of the Mutiny, in 1858.
*[http://bjmh.org.uk/index.php/bjmh/article/view/32 "Counter-Insurgency in the Bombay Presidency during the Mutiny-Rebellion, 1857"] by Bruce Collins, British ''Journal for Military History'' Vol 1, No 2 (2015). bjmh.org.uk.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175703 Second edition 1897] With a second Preface. Archive.org.
*[http://archive.org/stream/historyofindian00holm#page/n5/mode/2up ''A History of the Indian Mutiny and of the disturbances which accompanied it among the civil population''] by T. Rice Holmes 5th edition revised 1898, originally published 1883. Archive.org. [http://archive.org/stream/historyofindian00holm#page/638/mode/2up Index], page 639
*''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857'' by Julian R J Jocelyn 1915 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://wwwarchive.naval-military-press.comorg/productdetails/history-of-the-royal-and-indian-artillery-in-the-mutiny-of-1857/ page/n13/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857''] by Julian R J Jocelyn1915. Naval & Military Press reprint editionArchive.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsqtlyCuUX online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in World War II/Military Books/India)org. Also available for those in areas such as North America on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008884125 HathiTrust Digital Library] and [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_history_of_the_Royal_and_Indian_arti.html?id=vKc4AQAAIAAJ KE9FAAAAYAAJ Google Books], same digital file. “A very remarkable narrative, containing better tables and orders of battle, than any other book published. It is as interesting for its general as it is for its artillery record.” (Statement by Sir George MacMunn, 1931, refer his book below).
*''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I'' by Maj-Gen Whitworth Porter 1889 [http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy01portgoog#page/n530/mode/2up "The Indian Mutiny"], page 474. Archive.org
*''Selections from the letters, despatches and other state papers preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58'' edited by George W. Forrest, Director of Records of the Government of India. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/crisisinpunjabfr00coop/page/n5 ''The Crisis in the Punjab : from the 10th of May until the Fall of Delhi''] by Frederic Cooper, Deputy Commissioner of Umritsur 1858 Archive.org. Published in London. Includes [https://archive.org/details/crisisinpunjabfr00coop/page/n11 "Disposition of Troops prior to Outbreak"], page vii. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p8QnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books edition by A Punjab Employe] and published in Lahore for the benefit of the Lawrence Asylum 1858.
*[http://archive.org/stream/fiftysevensomeac00keenrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Fifty-Seven: Some Account of the Administration in Indian Districts during the Revolt of the Bengal Army''] by Henry George Keene 1883 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1727/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Sepoy Revolt: A Critical Narrative''] by Lieut.-General McLeod Innes VC 1897. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''The Tale of the Great Mutiny'' by W H Fitchett. With portraits and maps. [https://archive.org/details/taleofgreatmutin01fitc 1901 version]; [https://archive.org/details/taleofgreatmutin00fitc Eight Impression, Second Edition (Enlarged) 1909] Archive.org
*''Records of the Intelligence Department of the Government of the North-West Provinces of India during the Mutiny of 1857'' arranged by Sir William Muir 1902 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsintellig00indigoog#page/n6/mode/2up Volume 1] [http://www.archive.org/stream/recordsintellig01indigoog#page/n6/mode/2up Volume 2]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/revoltincentral00burtgoog#page/n4/mode/2up ''The Revolt in Central India 1857-1859''] compiled by Army Headquarters, India 1908. Archive.org
*''Selections from the Punjab Government Records''. Series edited by A. Raynor and H. R. Goulding. Volumes 7 and 8 are in respect of the Indian Mutiny and were published 1911.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281777 ''Mutiny Records Correspondence In Two Parts [Vol. 7<nowiki>]</nowiki> Part 1'']; [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.10817/page/n3 [Vol. 7<nowiki>]</nowiki> Pt.2''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54949 Pt.2 '' 2nd file]:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529198 ''Mutiny Records Reports [Vol.8<nowiki>]</nowiki> Pt.1''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529197 ''Mutiny Records Reports [Vol.8<nowiki>]</nowiki> Pt.2'']. Archive.org. Public Library of India Collection. :[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.107962/page/n3/mode/2up ''Press Lists of Mutiny Papers of 1857-58 in the Punjab Secretariat''] published c 1925 (although catalogued 1857). The author appears to be HLO Garrett, Keeper of the Punjab Records at Lahore. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/heroesofindianmu00gill#page/n11/mode/2up ''Heroes of the Indian Mutiny: stories of heroic deeds''] by Edward Gilliat 1914 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173458 ''A Postscript To The Records Of The Indian Mutiny''] Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title: ''A Postscript to the Records of the Indian Mutiny. An Attempt to Trace the Subsequent Careers and Fate of the Rebel Bengal Regiments, 1857-1858'' by Lieutenant-Colonel G H D Gimlette 1927. “Gimlette lists all of the units of the Bengal Army and gives a short annotation of each one discussing their eventual fate”<ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/heroesofindianmu00gill/page/n11 ''Heroes of the Indian Mutiny; Stories of Heroic Deeds…''] by Edward Gilliat 1914 Archive.org. Elsewhere classified as “reading level: Young Adults”, and appears to be considered suitable for older school students.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12731/page/n7 ''English Historical Writings on the Indian Mutiny 1857-1859''] by Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri 1979 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersahibsmen0000alle ''Soldier Sahibs : the men who made the North-West Frontier''] by Charles Allen 2001, first published 2000. Includes 3 chapters about the Indian Mutiny. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/indianmutiny18570000frem ''The Indian Mutiny, 1857-58''] by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 2007. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Part of the series ''Essential Histories'' edited by Professor Robert O’Neill.
*[https://archive.org/details/b28709019 ''My Journal or What I did and saw between the 9th of June and 25th November, 1857, with an Account of General Havelock's March from Allahabad to Lucknow''] by A Volunteer. 1858 Archive.org. The author was W. O. Swanston [William Oliver] 7th Madras NI. The story of the Volunteer Cavalry, commanded by Captain Barrow, also known as [[Barrow's Volunteers‎]].
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tDAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Recollections of a winter campaign in India in 1857-58''] by Capt Oliver John Jones, R.N. 1859 Google Books. The author was attached, as a volunteer, to the [[53rd Regiment of Foot]] for five months
*''From London to Lucknow: with memoranda of mutinies, marches, flights, fights, and conversations. To which is added, an opium-smuggler's explanation of the Peiho Massacre'' by A Chaplain in H M Indian Service [catalogued James Aberigh- Mackay] (elsewhere stated to be [J. Mackay afterwards Aberigh-Mackay]) 1860. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UDsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XpVFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA259 Volume II] Google Books.
*''From Cadet to Colonel: the Record of a Life of Active Service'' by Sir Thomas Seaton 1866 Google Books, The Indian Mutiny commences Volume 2 [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RkEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52 Chapter III, page 52] ([http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bUEoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 Volume 1])
*[[93rd Regiment of Foot]]
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91095/page/n1/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of Military Service with the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders''] by Surgeon-General Munro, formerly Surgeon of the Regiment 1883 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. The regiment arrived in Calcutta in September 1857, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91095/page/116/mode/2up page 117].
**[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00forb/page/n5 ''Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59, including the Relief, Siege, and Capture of Lucknow, and the Campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude''] by William Forbes-Mitchell, late Sergeant, [[93rd Regiment of Foot|Ninety-Third Sutherland Highlanders]] 1894 (first published 1893) Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/reliefoflucknow0000forb/page/n5 ''The Relief of Lucknow''] by William Forbes-Mitchell. Edited, and with an introduction, by Michael Edwardes 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
**[https://archive.org/details/recollectionsah00alexgoog/page/n12/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Highland Subaltern, during the Campaigns of the 93rd Highlanders in India, under Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, in 1857, 1858 and 1859''] by Lieut.-Colonel W Gordon-Alexander 1898 Archive.org. Refers to some instances which were reported inaccurately in Malleson's ''History''.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantgener00hervgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B.: Royal (Bengal) Engineers; a Memoir and a Retrospect in the Year of the Mutiny in India''] by Charles Hervey 1887 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_03108#page/n33/mode/2up, ''Life and travels of James Fisher: an autobiography''], page 32 by James Fisher 1890 Archive.org. During the Indian Mutiny the author belonged to a British Army regiment, 2nd Battalion Military Train, whose duty was a mounted transport. (This regiment was later part of the Royal Army Service Corps and nowadays the Royal Logistic Corps)
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507263 barracksbattlefieldsindia/page/n5/mode/2up ''Barracks and battlefields Battlefields in India; or, The experiences of a soldier of the 10th Foot (North Lincoln) in the Sikh wars Wars and Sepoy Mutiny''], edited by the Rev Caesar Caine 1891 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.507263 1971 reprint edition Archive.org], Public mirror from Digital Library of India Collection. The soldier was Thomas Malcolm. This book is also available on a restricted access basis, probably accessible by those in North America on the [http://catalogborn 1827.hathitrust.org/Record/100382741 HathiTrust Digital Library]
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924064295508#page/n9/mode/2up ''Mutiny Memoirs being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857''] by Colonel A. R. D. Mackenzie 2nd edition 1892 Archive.org (First edition 1891)
*[https://archive.org/details/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal''] by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author was with the [[9th Lancers]], and for a period with Irregular Cavalry. His Indian Mutiny experiences commence [https://archive.org/stream/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog#page/n157/mode/2up page 127]. His wife's account follows.
:[https://archive.org/details/aladysdiarybefo00ouvrgoog ''A Lady's Diary Before and During the Indian Mutiny''] by M H Ouvry 1892 Archive.org. The author 's husband wrote the book above.
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00forb/page/n5 ''Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59, including the Relief, Siege, and Capture of Lucknow, and the Campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude''] by William Forbes-Mitchell, late Sergeant, [[93rd Regiment of Foot|Ninety-Third Sutherland Highlanders]] 1894 (first published 1893) Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/reliefoflucknow0000forb/page/n5 ''The Relief of Lucknow''] by William Forbes-Mitchell. Edited, and with an introduction, by Michael Edwardes 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunnerjingosjubi00stra ''Gunner Jingo's Jubilee''] by Major-General T Bland Strange. Late Royal Artillery 1893 Archive.org. Born 1831 in [[Meerut]] he subsequently came to India when the Indian Mutiny broke out (page 129). [https://archive.org/details/gunnerjingosjubi00stra/page/n15 Contents] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bland_Strange Thomas Bland Strange] Wikipedia. [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7974 “Strange, Thomas Bland”] by Roderick C. Macleod in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.
*''Memories of the Mutiny'' by Francis Cornwallis Maude, late Colonel R A, and formerly commanding the Artillery of Havelock's Column. 1894 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/memoriesmutiny01shergoog Volume I] 2nd Edition. [https://archive.org/details/MemoriesOfTheMutiny2 Volume II]
*[https://archive.org/details/unrecordedchapte00wilbrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''An unrecorded chapter of the Indian Mutiny : being the personal reminiscences of Reginald G. Wilberforce, late 52nd Light Infantry compiled from a diary and letters written on the spot''] 1894. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028000101#page/n151/mode/2up "The Indian Mutiny"], page 121, ''Recollections of a Military Life'' by General Sir John Adye , RA 1895 Archive.org. He came to India when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and was in India nearly nine years.
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofsevenc00thor#page/n7/mode/2up ''Memories of Seven Campaigns: a record of thirty-five years' service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan''] by James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon General, Indian Medical Service, late Principal Medical Officer Punjab Frontier Force. 1895 Archive.org. (The author was in the Bengal Medical Service 1856-1891). Chapters II-IV cover the Indian Mutiny period. During this time Thornton was attached to [[5th Regiment of Foot|
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin00unkngoog#page/n100/mode/1up ''Forty One Years in India: From subaltern to commander-in-chief Volume 1''] by Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar 1897 Chapter 6 onwards. Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/fortyoneyearsin02robegoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''Volume 2''] 1898
*[https://archive.org/details/oldmemories00gougrich/mode/2up ''Old Memories''] by General Sir Hugh Gough 1897 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924064186590/page/n13/mode/2up 2nd digital file which lists the illustrations in the book] Both Archive.org. Indian Mutiny recollections.
*[https://archive.org/details/recollectionsah00alexgoog/page/n12/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Highland Subaltern, during the Campaigns of the 93rd Highlanders in India, under Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, in 1857, 1858 and 1859''] by Lieut.-Colonel W Gordon-Alexander 1898 Archive.orgernet. Refers to some instances which were reported inaccurately in Malleson's ''History''.:[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth2015.91095513692/page/n1n11/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of Military Service with the 93rd Sutherland HighlandersAn Old Soldier’s Memories''] by SurgeonS. H. Jones-General MunroParry, formerly Surgeon of the Regiment 1883 late Captain Royal Dublin Fusiliers. 1897 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. The regiment author arrived in Calcutta India in September 1857, [https://archive1849.org/details/dliHe joined the 1st Madras Fusiliers in 1850 (page 24).granthHe took part in the [[2nd Burma War]] and the Indian Mutiny.91095/page/116/mode/2up He left India, page 117]c early-mid 1860s.
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsirrichar00thor ''General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India; a record of forty-three year's service as Soldier, Political Officer and Administrator''] by Thomas Henry Thornton 1898 Archive.org. Born 1821, Sir Richard served in the Bengal Army from 1838 for nearly twenty years. At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny he was Brigade-Major of the Gwalior Contingent which mutinied. He later raised Meade’s Horse. Subsequently in 1859 he was appointed Political Agent at Gwalior, finally retiring in March 1881.
*[https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsoft00gordrich#page/106/mode/2up Sepoy Mutiny] page 107 ''Recollections of thirty-nine years in the Army'' by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon, Surgeon- General 1898 Archive.org. He was then a surgeon with the [[10th Regiment of Foot]].
*[https://archive.org/details/dutydangerinindi00straiala ''Duty and Danger in India''] edited by Herbert Strang. Reprinted 1917, catalogued 1911. Archive.org. From the series ''The Romance of the World''. An anthology, part Indian Mutiny accounts, part Hunting accounts.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinajiminciden00harrgoog '''China Jim', Incidents and Adventures in the Life of an Indian Mutiny Veteran''] by Major General J T Harris 1912 Archive.org. He joined the Bengal Army in 1849. He probably retired c late 1870s. He took part in the [[2nd Burma War]], the Indian Mutiny and the [[2nd China War]].
*[https://archive.org/details/generalsiralexta01tayl/page/142/mode/2up "The Mutiny"] page 143, Volume I. Continues into [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.88056/page/ii/mode/2up Volume II] ''General Sir Alex Taylor G.C.B., R.E.: his Times, his Friends, and his Work'' by A. Cameron Taylor, his daughter, 1913. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.71912/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Chronicle Of Private Henry Metcalfe H M 32nd Regiment of Foot, together with Lieutenant John Edmondstone’s Letter to his Mother of 4 January 1858''] collected and edited by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker 1953 Archive.org. Metcalfe embarked for India 14 June 1849, and served there until the regiment returned to England in 1859. He took part in the Siege of Lucknow.
*[https://archive.org/details/englishwomaninin0000tytl/page/n5 ''An Englishwoman in India : the memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858''] by Harriet Tytler. Edited by Anthony Sattin. 1986. Archive.org Lending Library. Harriet Tytler, the wife of Captain Robert Tytler, was the only woman present at the siege of Delhi in 1857.
*For online books about Brig-Gen John Nicholson and his role in the Indian Mutiny, see the the page [[John Nicholson]]
** Also see Fiction below for a novel, ''The Devil's Wind'' by Maj. Gen.G.L. Verney, concerning the Shannon's Brigade.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hsVGAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54 Pearl's Naval Brigade in India] page 54 ''The Cruise of the Pearl round the World'' by Rev E A Wiliams 1859 Google Books. See [[Pearl's Naval Brigade]] for the force which took part in some actions with Shannon's Brigade.
*[https://archive.org/details/middysrecollecti00montrich/page/n7 ''A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860''] by Rear-Admiral the Honourable Victor Alexander Montague 1898 Archive.org. Includes the Indian Mutiny.
*[https://archive.org/details/navalbrigadesini0000unse/page/n5 ''The Naval Brigades in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58''] edited by Commander W B Rowbotham RN 1947. Printed for the Navy Records Society, Vol LXXXVII. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes personal accounts.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R24BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''How I won the Victoria Cross''] by Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Commissioner in Oudh, 1860 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6wbmMHtf-FwC&pg=PA310 "The Mutiny"] page 310 ''Memorials of Service in India‬: ‪from the correspondence of the late Major Samuel Charters Macpherson,‬ Political Agent at Gwalior during the Mutiny'' 1865 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/b28709561/page/n9/mode/2up ''An episode of the rebellion and mutiny in Oudh of 1857 and 1858 ...''] by George Yeoward late Head Clerk of Gondah in the Province of Oudh. 1876 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ourrealdangerini00forj ''Our real danger in India''] by C Forjett, late Commissioner of Police of Bombay c 1877. Archive.org. Includes the author’s views on the causes of the Mutiny and his part in the preventative and precautionary measures taken in Bombay during the Mutiny.
*[https://archive.org/details/personaladventur00thor ''The Personal Adventures and Experiences of a Magistrate During the Rise, Progress, and Suppression of the Indian Mutiny''] by Mark Thornhill 1884 Archive.org. Also available as a current reprint by Cambridge University Press [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7ihP7E49bDYC&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesan01cavegoog#page/n213/mode/2up Chapter VI], page 198 ''Reminiscences of an Indian Official'' by General Sir Orfeur Cavenagh 1884 Archive.org. The measures taken in Calcutta during the Mutiny.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1128/page/15/mode/2up "Incidents of the Indian Mutiny"] page 16 ''Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sir Douglas Forsyth'' edited by his daughter 1887. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR. In 1857 he was the Deputy Commissioner at Umballa.
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924006145662#page/n13/mode/2up ''Daily Life during the Indian Mutiny : Personal Experiences of 1857''] by J W Sherer [former Magistrate of Futtehpore, and afterwards Cawnpore] 1910 (later reprint edition). Archive.org. Text previously appeared in Colonel F C Maude’s ''Memories of the Mutiny'' 1894, refer above.
*See the page [[Herbert Benjamin Edwardes‎]] for online books about his role as Commissioner of Peshawar during the Indian Mutiny.
====Fiction====
*''How to Manage It: a Novel'' by Iltudus Thomas Prichard 1864. [https://archive.org/details/howtomanageitan00pricgoog/page/n6/mode/2up Vol.I], [https://archive.org/details/howtomanageitan02pricgoog/page/n8/mode/2up Vol. II], [https://archive.org/details/howtomanageitan01pricgoog/page/n6/mode/2up Vol.III] Archive.org.
:[http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=241 Iltudus Thomas Prichard] victorianresearch.org.
:He was also the author of the factual account ''The Mutinies in Rajpootana'', see [[Central India Campaign]].
*[https://archive.org/details/00365245.2394.emory.edu ''First Love and Last Love: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by James Grant 1869 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eightdaystaleofi00forr ''Eight Days: a Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by R E Forrest, first published 1891. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shadowofmoon00kaye ''Shadow of the Moon''] by M.M. Kaye 1980, [https://archive.org/details/shadowofmoon00mmka 2nd file] both Archive.org Lending Library. Originally published in 1957 with much of the historical content cut by the publisher, republished in its original form restored to its full length in 1980, following the great success of the author's 1978 book ''The Far Pavilions''.
*[https://archive.org/details/flashmaningreatg00fras/page/n3 ''Flashman in the Great Game : from the Flashman papers, 1856-1858''] by George MacDonald Fraser 1989. Archive.org Lending Library. Flashman in the Indian Mutiny. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers The Flashman Papers] Wikipedia.
'''For younger readers'''*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_NoBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Childhood in India; or, English Children in the East by the wife of an officer, late of H.M. service''] 1865 (Google Books) . A Tale for Children "Founded on Fact" based on the experiences of a family in India during the Mutiny of 1857.*[https://archive.org/details/begumbaghtaleofi00fenniala ''Begumbagh A Tale of the Indian Mutiny''] by George Manville Fenn 1879 Archive.org. George Manville Fenn 1831-1909, was a prolific writer of boys' adventure stories.:[https:mutinynovel0000rath_d0k4/mode/archive.org/details/GM_Fenn_Gil_the_Gunner 2up ''Gil the Gunner; or The Youngest Officer in the East''] by George Manville Fenn 1892 Archive.org. A boys’ adventure story about a young officer in the [[Bengal Horse Artillery]].*[https://archive.org/details/disputedvctaleof00gibbiala ''The Disputed V.C. Mutiny : a Tale of the Indian MutinyNovel''] by Frederick P GibbonJulian Rathbone 2008, c 1894 Archive.org. A boys’ adventure story.*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x030736418?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Barclay of the Guides''] by Herbert Strang probably 1908. HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32102 1928 reprint of 1908 original] Gutenberg.orgfirst published 2007. [https://archive.org/details/barclayoftheguid32102gut Archive.org version]. An adventure story for younger readers.*[http://www.archive.org/stream/chalonerofbengal00lanciala#page/n7mutinynovel0000rath/mode/2up ''Chaloner of the Bengal Cavalry: a Tale of the Indian Mutiny''File 2] by Percival Lancaster R E. 1915 Archive.org An adventure story for younger readersBooks to Borrow/Lending Library{{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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