LOW, Charles Rathbone.

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The Life and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock. First edition, inscribed on the half-title "With the Publishers' Compliments" and on a preliminary blank, "L. C. Montagu-Pollock, 1877"; this is almost certainly Lady Laura Caroline Montagu-Pollock (1827-1900), wife of Sir George's eldest son Frederick (1815-1874), Royal Engineers, who adopted the name Montagu-Pollock in 1873. This remains the only biography of Sir George (1786-1872), a lifelong Indian Army officer.Pollock initially served with the Bengal artillery in the Second Anglo-Maratha War and then in Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War. In Afghanistan he "forced the Khyber with his Army of Retribution, and relieved Sale on April 16 [1842]; when ordered by Lord Ellenborough to withdraw from Afghanistan, he remonstrated, and was allowed to advance at his own discretion, and with Nott to retire to India 'by way of Kabul'; he defeated the Afghans at Mamu Kheyl, Jagdalak, Tezin; entered Kabul on Sep. 16, where Nott joined him directly... finally defeated the Afghans at Istalif on Sep. 29; destroyed the Kabul bazaar, leaving the city, Oct. 12, to return to India... Pollock was made GCB and given the command of a division" (Buckland, pp. 339-40).ODNB describes him as "calm, imperturbable, sensible, and efficient. He took great care in looking after his men, and planned and made all his arrangements with great care and precision. Cautious and prudent, he husbanded his resources; but when ready to strike he

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