Best Historical Novels About Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough

1779–1869

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough was the British commander-in-chief in India during the Sikh Wars. He led hard-fought victories at Mudki, Ferozeshah, Sobraon, Chillianwala and Gujrat, though his preference for direct attacks caused heavy casualties and controversy.

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough also held the offices or ranks of Baron Gough, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, and member of the House of Lords. Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough was born in Limerick and died in London.

George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman and the Mountain of Light places Hugh Gough in command of the British army during the First Anglo-Sikh War, with Flashman’s self-serving adventures unfolding around the same battles and political misjudgements. Amarpal Singh’s The First Anglo-Sikh War reconstructs Gough’s advance towards the Sutlej and the hard-fought campaign in which the Khalsa army repeatedly tested British assumptions about an easy victory. The Second Anglo-Sikh War follows him again through Ramnagar, Sadullapur and the costly Battle of Chillianwala before the fall of Multan released the artillery needed for his decisive victory at Gujrat.

Historical novels and book series featuring Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough (1 series)

The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2(80,547)

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…