Oriental Campaigns. By Colonel E. Maude. T. Fisher Vnwin. 75.
6d. net.)—This "Veteran of the Indian Mutiny" went out with a cadetship in 1843, and was put into the Bombay establish- ment. On arriving in India he was attached to a native regiment stationed at Satara. He had an early experience of campaigning, for there was an insurrection at Kolhapur. A fort was stormed under no small difficulties, and the affair came to an end. Then came an appointment to the Bombay Rifles, campaigning in Scinde, the storming of Mooltan, and the battle of Gujarat. After this was a period of furlough, and, on rat= to India, the Persian Campaign, to be succeeded by service in the Indian Mutiny. Captain Maude, for he bad by this time obtained hie company, was actively engaged in the Bheel Campaign. The Bheels, our author tells us, were hut badly armed, having match- locks, spears, and swords. But there were great numbers of them„ and they were in the highest degree ez,pediti, wearing nothing but a loin cloth, p0 slight advantage as against the stiff uniform and heavy knapsack .of the British troops. Fighting in Indore ana other regions of Central India followed. The chief battles were at RajF,hur and Khuraee. Here we had one of the ablest of the rebel leaders, Tantia Tepee, opposed to us. in 1862 Captain Maude obtained his 'majority, and in 1887 retired after thirty- seven years' service. This is a pleasant and unaffected record ef experiences in war and peace.
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