MILITARY GENERAL

xv, [1], 411 illusts, endpaper maps First Edition #061024 Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.

“Commences with the setting up of the defences of the trading posts of the Honourable East India Company in Sumatra and then follows the progression of the Company’s rule in the East Indies. The formation and defences of the settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore are covered and details are given of the units which formed the garrison troops of these settlements.”

“The Java campaign of 1811 is covered and the involvement of the Honourable East India Company’s armies in that short expedition. [. . .] The founding of the settlement on Singapore Island by Sir T. Stamford Raffles in 1819 is covered and details are given of the early garrison, its problems and its defences. [. . .] Other chapters include the story of the garrison on the unfortified island of Labuan and the problems encountered by this remote garrison, as well as a chapter on the formation of the Sarawak unit of Fortmen which were were formed in 1848 by Rajah James Brooke.”