The Engineers

The Engineers at Delhi
Author, Title and PublisherNotes
📘 Royal Engineers
Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers, contributed by Officers of the Royal Engineers and East Indian Engineers. New Series, Vol. X. Woolwich: W.P. Jackson, 1861.Journals and reports of the RE operations at Jhansi, the Siege of Auwa, reports on the engineering operations during the defence of Lucknow and the taking of Lucknow. How to construct bridges over rivers and how to blow them up.
Head, Francis B. The Royal Engineer. London: John Murray, 1869Everything you might possibly want to know about the Royal Engineers.
Porter, Whitworth. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Two Volumes. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889
Vibart, Henry M. General Sir Harry N.D. Prendergast, R.E., V.C., G.C.B. (The Happy Warrior). London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914Royal Engineer; Madras Sappers & Miners during the Central India Campaign.
📘 Bengal Engineers /Sappers and Miners
Sandes, E.W.C. The Military Engineer in India. Two Volumes. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1933
Sandes, E.W.C. The Indian Sappers & Miners. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1948
Vibart, H.M. The Military History of the Madras Engineers and Pioneers. Two Volumes. London: W.H.Allen & Co. 1883
Thackeray, Edward T. Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1900
Blomfield, David, ed. Lahore to Lucknow: The Indian Mutiny Journal of Arthur Moffatt Lang. London: Leo Cooper, 1992.Lang served in the Punjab, at Delhi and at Lucknow.
Hervey, Charles. Lieutenant General Crommelin, C.B. A Memoir and Retrospect. Exeter: William Pollard & Co. 1887.Crommelin was chief engineer under Havelock. He served through Havelock’s campaign was engineered the mining operations at the Residency during the blockade. He was with the Bengal Engineers.
Medley, Julius George. A Year’s Campaigning in India, from March 1857 to March 1858. London: W. Thacker & Co. 1858Medley served with the Bengal Engineers at the Siege of Delhi and as Garrison Engineer at Lucknow after the retaking of the city.
Napier, H. D. Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, GCB, GCSI; A Memoir. London: Edward Arnold, 1927.Napier served on Campbell’s staff during the mutiny.
MacMunn, George. The History of the Sikh Pioneers (23rd, 32nd and 34th). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.
Taylor, Cameron. General Sir Alex Taylor, G.C.B., R.E.: His Times, His Friends and His Work. Two Volumes. London: Williams & Norgate, 1913Served in the Bengal Engineers & transferred to the Royal Engineers.
Thackeray, Edward T. Two Indian Campaigns in 1857-58. Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1896Siege of Delhi and the Capture of Lucknow and the Rohilkhand Campaign. The better of the two Thackeray books.
Thackeray, Edward T. Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny and Afghanistan. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1916.

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