'Yes, sir.' Jack knew that his world was about to change again. He smiled as Mary stepped into the room. Whatever happened, he knew he would never be alone, not with Mary beside him.
I have made my choice and have no regrets.
'Where are you sending me, sir?
'To the furthest side of the world, Windrush.' Hook said.
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Historical Note
The Indian Mutiny was arguably the most bitter of the British 19th-century colonial campaigns. Although the fighting spluttered on into 1859, the Mutiny effectively finished in 1858. The days of the Honourable East India Company ended, and those of the British Raj began as the Crown took control of India. The old Company armies merged into a new Indian Army, with the so-called 'martial races' as its backbone, with Sikhs and Gurkhas dominant and justly famed as fighting men.
The Mutiny left some British paranoid about the possibility of further outbreaks, with warnings to incoming officers to maintain their vigilance. The British never found Nana Sahib, although expeditions sought him and rumours and speculation abounded.
British rule survived another ninety years and two world wars, finally ending with the independence of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon in 1947. Historians disagree about the events of 1857-58, and the real causes of the war. Nobody can disagree that all sides fought with incredible bravery.
In Britain, people have largely forgotten the generals and men who fought in that war and the battles of Lucknow, Cawnpore, Delhi and all the rest are barely known. Indian historians often brand the conflict as the First War of Independence and portray it as a national uprising against British rule. History rolls on; attitudes alter, what one generation accepts as a fact, the next will scorn. Jack Windrush, Arthur Elliot, Mary Lambert, Riley, Logan, Thorpe and all their colleagues lived within their own timeframe, with the attitudes and perceptions of the mid-nineteenth century. Their lives and adventures continued.
Malcolm Archibald
About the Author
Born and raised in Edinburgh, the sternly-romantic capital of Scotland, I grew up with a father and other male relatives imbued with the military, a Jacobite grandmother who collected books and ran her own business and a grandfather from the legend-crammed island of Arran. With such varied geographical and emotional influences, it was natural that I should write.
Educated in Edinburgh and Dundee, I began to write fiction and non-fiction. Now living in the north of Scotland, I still write.
Malcolm Archibald
Books by Malcolm Archibald
Jack Windrush -Series Windrush
Windrush: Crimea
Windrush: Blood Price
Windrush: Cry Havelock
Windrush: Jayanti's Pawns
A Wild Rough Lot
Dance If Ye Can: A Dictionary of Scottish Battles
Like The Thistle Seed: The Scots Abroad
Our Land of Palestine
Shadow of the Wolf
The Swordswoman
The Shining One (The Swordswoman Book 2)
Falcon Warrior (The Swordswoman Book 3)
Melcorka of Alba (The Swordswoman Book 4)
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