Being an Account of the Splendid Defence of Arrah House during the Indian Mutiny ... reprinted from a Pamphlet by John James Halls. To which is added an Account of the Gallant Relief of the Same by a Company and a Half of the Fifth Fusiliers, under Major Vincent Eyre of the Bengal Artillery ... Edited by Lieutenant G.F.T. Leather, Fifth Fusiliers.
First edition. Number 8 of a limited edition of 103. Frontispiece. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, gilt, coat of arms gilt to upper board, extremities rubbed, text evenly toned. xvi, 138pp. Dover, Privately Printed, 1893.
A very good copy of this scarce volume which collects two works on the Siege of Arrah, which took place during the Indian Mutiny. Eighteen civilians and fifty members of the Bengal Military Police Battalion endured an eight-day siege in a fortified outbuilding. John J. Hall was one of those who defended the building and was decorated for his actions. Charles Kelly wasn't at the siege itself, but was attached to the Fifth Fusiliers in India at the time.
Ladendorf, 313.
