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Title: Sir Charles Napier
Author: Sir William Francis Butler
Release Date: January 6, 2015 [eBook #47887]
Language: English
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English Men of Action
SIR CHARLES NAPIER
SIR CHARLES NAPIER.
SIR CHARLES NAPIER
BY
COLONEL SIR WILLIAM F. BUTLER
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1890
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| The Home at Celbridge—First Commission | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Early Service—The Peninsula | 14 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Corunna | 27 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| The Peninsula in 1810-11—Bermuda—America—Royal Military College | 46 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Cephalonia | 62 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Out of Harness | 75 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Command of the Northern District | 86 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| India—The War in Scinde | 98 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| The Battle of Meanee | 117 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| The Morrow of Meanee—The Action at Dubba | 136 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| The Administration of Scinde | 152 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| England—1848 to 1849 | 175 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| Commander-in-Chief in India | 188 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| Home—Last Illness—Death | 203 |
CHAPTER I THE HOME AT CELBRIDGE—FIRST COMMISSION
Ten miles west of Dublin, on the north bank of the Liffey, stands a village of a single street, called Celbridge. In times so remote that their record only survives in a name, some Christian hermit built here himself a cell for house, church, and tomb; a human settlement took root around the spot; deer-tracks widened into pathways; pathways broadened into roads; and at