Firangi: European Adventurers of Northern India (1785-1849): European Adventurers of Northern India (1785-1849)

By C Grey and Charles Grey and H L O Garrett

Around 200 years ago in Lahore, deserters across Europe intermingled with sophisticated ex-Napoleonic officers for the chance to fight for Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who sought to create Asia's most powerful army in anticipation of a clash with the British Empire.
Conspicuous among them were a Scots-American soldier-of-fortune who single-handedly defended Lahore by blowing up 300 furious fanatics, a Neapolitan general whose blood-lust for extreme forms of punitive justice inspired fear in Sikhs and Afghans alike, and the son of an Irish sailor who had ruled a small Indian principality as the Raja of Tipperary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911271105
• ISBN13: 9781911271109
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Kashi House
• Length: 400 Pages