قراءة كتاب Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment
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Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment
"Adventures are to the adventurous."
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THE ADVENTURE SERIES.
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1.
Adventures of a Younger Son. By E.J. Trelawny. With an Introduction by Edward Garnett. Second Edition.
2.
Robert Drury's Journal in Madagascar. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Captain S.P. Oliver.
3.
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp. With an Introduction by H. Manners Chichester.
4.
The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner. Written by himself, and edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Robert Brown.
Others in the Press.
MEMOIRS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY
MILITARY CAREER OF JOHN SHIPP,
LATE A LIEUT. IN HIS MAJESTY'S 87TH REGIMENT
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY H. MANNERS CHICHESTER
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXC
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| (1) | Lieutenant John Shipp | Frontispiece. | |
| (2) | Saxmundham Church | To face p. | 32 |
| (3) | Plan of Bhurtpore | " | 98 |
| (4) | European Cavalry of Shipp's Day | " | 144 |
| (5) | Ghoorka Soldier | " | 210 |
| (6) | The Fort of Hattrass | " | 216 |
| (7) | Travelling on the Ganges | " | 236 |
| (8) | Indian Troops of Shipp's Day | " | 326 |
| (9) | Ghaut on the Ganges | " | 360 |
INTRODUCTION
In reproducing the "Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp" as a volume of the Adventure Series, it may be well to say a few introductory words concerning the author and the book.
John Shipp was, he tells us, the second son of Thomas and Lætitia Shipp, persons in humble circumstances in the little town of Saxmundham, in Suffolk, and he adds that in the registers of the parish church will be found a record of his birth on March 16, 1785. The latter statement is incorrect. The church register records baptisms, not births, and a careful search has shown that the only entry answering to the above is a record of the baptism of John, the child of Thomas and Lætitia Shipp, at a date twelve months earlier—March 16, 1784. The error probably explains the conflicting statements of the author's age which occur in the course of the story.
Shipp's father was a soldier (a marine?), and his mother dying when he was very young, he became an inmate of the parish poorhouse (there were no Union workhouses in those days), whence he passed into the hands of a neighbouring farmer, one of those savage taskmasters only too common in the "good old times."[1] His deliverance came in unexpected fashion. In the early years of the French Revolutionary War the supply of recruits was far less