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Educated at Winchester , he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal infantry in 1842 , and served through the Second Burmese War . His subsequent appointments were in the civil line, the last being that of guardian to the young Maharaja of Mysore . He retired with the rank of colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in 1872. He was a voluminous writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous " Red Pamphlet ," published at Calcutta in 1857 , when the Mutiny was at its height. He continued, and considerably rewrote the ''History of the Indian Mutiny'' (6 vols., 1878-1880), which was begun but left unfinished by Sir John Kaye . Among his other books the most valuable are ''History of the French in India'' (2nd ed., 1893) and ''The Decisive Battles of India'' (3rd ed., 1888). REFERENCES |