Omar, Pasha, first mentioned, 80; provides baggage animals, 82; first meeting with, 89; opinion of British cavalry, 90; reviews troops, 90; lands at Eupatoria, 119; reason of being in Crimea, 119.
Opium shops, visit to, 180; revenue from, 180.
Osman Digna, 284, 334; possible source of trouble, 337.
Parkes, Sir Harry, sent to Zung-Chow, 269; taken prisoner, 270; illtreated, 271.
Pasley, Captain Sir Thomas, 148.
Pei-ho forts, unsuccessful attack, 241; taken, 265; see Taku.
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Pekin, fight before, 270; taken, 271;
Summer Palace sacked, 272;
funeral of murdered prisoners,
273; peace signed, 273. P^lissier, General, serious error of, 146. Politics, views of Sir F. Stephenson,
57; condition, 341. Pyramids, Gizeh, 292; Sakhara, 301.
Raglan, Lord, expected in Malta, 66; efforts to procure horses, 82; remonstrates with Menschikov, 1 16; death, 147.
Redan, the, 145; Pelissier alters hour of attack, 146.
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Religious views of Sir B. C. S., 4; of Sir W. H. S., 12; of Sir F.,
Romilly, Colonel, xii; A.D.C., 38.
Rowe, pseudonym of Charlie Stephenson, 14.
Russians, poor opinion of, 107, 112; severe losses, 11$; cruelty, 116; kindness to prisoners, 129; increasing influence at Pekin, 244; rumours of war with, 335; dangerous game, 350.
Salisbury, Bishop of, appointment of,
Scott-Moncrieff, Colonel, 312.
Sebastopol, siege, 105; not properly invested, 112; siege at a standstill, 118; begins again, 133; taken, 151.
Service portrait of Sir F. Stephenson, 28, 37-
Seymour, Sir M., sends Inflexible, 175; dispute with Lord Elgin, 217; goes home, 239.
Sikh cavalry in China, 255.
Silistria, Russian repulse in, 84.
Simpson, General, Commander-in-Chief in Crimea, 147; makes F. Stephenson Military Secretary, 147.
Smith, W. H., letter from, 17.
Soudan, future of, 309; origin of trouble, 313; failure in, 316; enemy's preparations, 341.
St. Arnaud, General, 75; false move,
Stephenson, Charlie, 14. Joseph, I.
Sir B. C., 2-5; serves in Hanoverian army, 2; quarrel with George iv., 7; Master of King's Household, 2; last man in England to wear Hessian boots, 57. Sir F, C. A., early life, 25-28; enters army, 28; Crimea, 29, 31; letters from Crimea, 65; journeys there, 66-71; first impressions of Turkey, 72; visits Stamboul, 77, 78; complains of the French, 84; complains of Commissariat, 87; meets Omar Pasha, 89; promotion, 91; battle of the Alma, loi, 104; Inkerman, 107; pleased with Lord Raglan's compliment, 109; before Sebastopol, 113; views on Sir R. England and the Tinus, 121; life at Balaclava, 123; complains of unreliable news, 1 25; size of guns, 118-132; views on marriage, I3S» 137 > disgust with Canrobert, 139; work in trenches, 143; army too small, ill, 146; appointed Military Secretary, 147; illness, 31, 148; returns to Crimea, 1 50; inside Sebastopol, 151; describes destruction of corn, 152; "Ben," 31; misses post of Military Secretary, 32, 150; China, 33; letters from China, 165; shipwreck, 33, 172; Banca Island, 174- 179; Hong Kong, 180; decides to send troops to India, 183; Ufe in Canton, 201; health, 213; encounter with Braves, 214; gazetted C.B., 221; severe strictures, 225; narrow escape, 228; desire for recall, 235, 246, 254; no pay for two years, 243; asks for books, 244; extra work, 257; sorrow at loss of friends, 245; theatricals and fans, 247; views on kidnapping, 251; D.A.G., 251; Taku forts, 258, 268; admiration of Sir Hope Grant, 264; at Pekin, 269; watches looting of Summer Palace, 272; attends funeral of Chinese victims, 275; goes home, 275; goes to Canada, 34; opinion of Americans, 35; his mother's death, 36; Colonel Dawkins, 37, 38; goes to Egypt, 38, 287; route to Khartoum, 39, 283, 324; battle of Giniss, 43, 285, 342; life in Cairo, 289; visits Pyramids, 292, 301; Sphinx, 295; troubles