Item HAMILTON, ISM 1/3/7 - Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1890-1893, volume 12, by General Sir Frederick Roberts

Correspondence in India while Commander-in-Chief in India, 1890-1893, volume 12 (Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1893) of Gen Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts,Commander-in-Chief, India, comprising letters and telegrams on army administration in India, including to Lt Gen Sir George Chesney, on the feasibility of buying mules in America for artillery transport, and on an outbreak of cholera amongst the Gurkha soldiers at Dehra and Dharmsala, India, 11-12 Jul 1890; to Maj Gen Sir George Stuart White, on the necessity of occupying the Hindu Kush range, Afghanistan, against a possible Russian invasion, 21 Jul 1890; to Lt Gen Sir James Dormer, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, on the dissatisfaction of Madras Army officers with opportunities for promotion and appointment to the staff, 30 Sep 1891; to Maj Gen Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, commanding the Punjab Frontier Force, on a proposed force to expel Afghan troops from Wana, Waziristan, 25 Aug 1892; to Lt Gen Henry Brackenbury, suggesting a military officer be appointed Superintendent of the Andaman Islands, 4 Feb 1893. 1 vol