Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Willem van de Velde the Elder and Robert Strickland Thomas. A boy enlists at ten, serves in India through two wars, wins a commission from the ranks, loses it through debt, enlists again and wins it a second time. John Shipp published his memoirs in 1829 and they are the plainest account of a private soldier's India that the period produced. The storming of Hathras and the flogging he witnesses are described without literary softening. Sixty plates range from Salvator Rosa to Géricault, setting Shipp's battles and sea passages among the storms, shipwrecks and soldiers that painters of his age made their own.