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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge

1785–1856

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge was the governor-general of India during the First Anglo-Sikh War. A veteran soldier, he worked with commander-in-chief Hugh Gough through the difficult battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah, Aliwal and Sobraon before imposing a settlement on Lahore.

George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Mountain of Light places Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government.

Series

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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