title: Marching to the Drums: Eyewitness Accounts of War from the Kabul Massacre to the Siege of Mafikeng
author: Ian Knight
description: Ian Knight is a foremost expert on Zulu military history and nineteenth-century military campaigns. His other books include Brave Mens Blood, Nothing Remains But to Fight, The Anatomy of the Zulu Army, and Go To Your God Like A Soldier.
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  # The Story of the Guides
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### G. J. Younghusband
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. FIRST STEPS IN WAR
  
  
  CHAPTER II. THE FIGHTING ROUND MOOLTAN AND AFTER
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE CAPTURE OF THE FORT OF GORINDGHAR
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. ON THE FRONTIER IN THE 'FIFTIES.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF DILAWUR KHAN.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT MARCH TO DELHI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. TWENTY YEARS OF MINOR WARS
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE MASSACRE OF THE GUIDES AT KABUL,
  
  
  1879
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE AFGHAN WAR, 1878-80
  
  
  CHAPTER X. WAR STORIES
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE ADVENTURES OF SHAH SOWAR AND ABDUL
  
  
  MUJID
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. THE MALAKAND, 1897
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. THE HOME OF THE GUIDES
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE STORY OF THE GUIDES
  
  
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  COL. G.J. YOUNGHUSBAND, C.B.
  
  
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