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George Bruce Malleson (May 8, 1825 - March 1, 1898), English officer in India and author, was born at Wimbledon. is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Wimbledon (pronounced ) is a suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton and located seven miles (11. ...
Educated at Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese War. His subsequent appointments were in the civil line, the last being that of guardian to the young maharaja of Mysore. He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in 1872. Winchester College is a well-known boys independent school, and an example of an English public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. ...
1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
The Second Anglo-Burmese War took place in 1852. ...
Major-General H.H. Farzand-i-Dilband Rasikh- al-Iqtidad-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia, Raja-i-Rajagan, Maharaja Sir Jagatjit Singh, Bahadur, Maharaja of Kapurthala, GCSI , GCIE , GBE The word MahÄrÄja (also spelled maharajah) is Sanskrit for great king or high king (a karmadharaya from mahÄnt great...
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He was a voluminous writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous "Red Pamphlet," published at Calcutta in 1857, when the Mutiny was at its height. He continued, and considerably rewrote the History of the Indian Mutiny (6 vols., 1878-1880), which was begun but left unfinished by Sir John Kaye. Among his other books the most valuable are History of the French in India (2nd ed., 1893) and The Decisive Battles of India (3rd ed., 1888). This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...
1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
An engraving titled Sepoy Indian troops dividing the spoils after their mutiny against British rule gives a contemporary view of events from a British perspective. ...
An unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper. ...
Sir John William Kaye (1814 - July 24, 1876) was a British military historian. ...
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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