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Key documents relating to White's service in Burma, India, and South Africa as well as important background and analysis of some of Britain's most significant small wars during the Victorian period. After graduating from the Royal Military College, George Stuart White was posted to India where he served in the Rebellion. Twenty years later, he fought in the Second Afghan War, where he was decorated with the Victoria Cross for gallantry in action. After a brief stint in the Sudan campaign, White returned to India, where he solidified his reputation, eventually rising to the position of Commander-in-Chief. During those years he commanded field forces in Burma and Baluchistan, sent expeditions to the North-West Frontier, and oversaw the end of the Presidency Armies. As war loomed on the horizon in South Africa in 1899, White was selected to command the Natal Field Force. This force was besieged for 118 days in the town of Ladysmith. Despite continuous Boer shelling, disease, and limited supplies, White managed to maintain the force and the civilian population in good order until its liberation. He was christened the ""Defender of Ladysmith."" In 1903, he was promoted to Field-Marshal.

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Stephen M. Miller is Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine and a leading historian of the British Army in the late nineteenth century. His publications include: Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa (Routledge, 1999), Soldiers and Settlers in Africa 1850-1918 (Brill, 2009), Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902 (Oklahoma University Press, 2007), George White and the Victorian Army in India and Africa (Palgrave 2020) and, as editor, Queen Victoria's Wars: British Military Campaigns, 1857-1902 (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

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