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HINDU-KOH: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalaya.

Name: HINDU-KOH: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and Beyond the Himalaya.
Author: Macintyre, Donald

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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. 1st edition. 8vo. xx, 464 + 24 ad pp. Color lithograph frontispiece, plates from drawings, wood engravings in text. Publisher's gilt green pictorial cloth. Very good. Major General Donald Macintyre received the Victoria Cross. In Hindu-Koh, he gives an account of his hunting adventures. Macintyre obtained a commission in the Bengal Army of the British Indian Army in June 1850. Joining the 66th Gurkha Regiment, he served in a number of small campaigns on the North West Frontier. During the 1857/8 Indian Mutiny, he helped raise an extra Gurkha regiment (later the 4th Gurkha Rifles), and to protect the hill passes on the Kali Kumaon frontier from Rohilkhand rebels. He was promoted to captain in June 1862. Macintyre served with the Lushai Expedition of 1871-2 as second in command of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles. It was here that Macintyre, a 40 year old major in the Bengal Staff Corps, was awarded the VC.

Author Macintyre, Donald

Date 1889

Binding Hardcover

Publisher William Blackwood and Sons

Condition Very good

Price: £400.00

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