Author: (Hamley). Shand, Alexander Innes.
Title: THE LIFE OF GENERAL SIR EDWARD BRUCE HAMLEY.
Description: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xi + 292pp. + viii + 328pp. Port. frontiss., 1 plate, 1 ills., 3 plans including 2 folding. Light browning, gilt lettered red remainder? cloth, faded along edges of boards, spines sl. bumped. ¶ Canada, Gilbraltar, and Crimea. ODNB ‘... At the Alma his horse was struck by a cannon-shot. At Inkerman his horse was killed, and he narrowly escaped being made prisoner. He had brought up three guns, and had placed them on the fore-ridge with a boldness and skill which seem to have attracted Todleben's notice. On the death of General Strangways, at Inkerman, the command of the artillery passed to Dacres; Hamley was his aide-de-camp until April 1856. He was mentioned in dispatches, was made brevet major on 12 December 1854 and brevet lieutenant-colonel on 2 November 1855, received a Légion d'honneur (fifth class) and a Mejidiye (fifth class), and was belatedly made a CB on 13 March 1867. He sent Blackwood's a series of letters from the Crimea, republished as [the above] vividly portraying the siege. In this, and in his 1856 Blackwood's article ‘Lessons from the war’, he defended the army against its ‘ill-informed and ill-judging’ civilian critics, alleging that its shortcomings resulted from politicians starving it of money and auxiliary services, and he rejected the accusations of incompetent command in the Crimea...’

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