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Excerpt from Lives of Indian Officers, Vol. 3: Illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Service of India; Major D'arcy Todd, Sir Henry Lawrence, General Neill, General John Nickolson Almost from his cradle, d'arcy had evinced, in his childish actions, the kindling of that martial enthusiasm which after wards so unmistakably developed itself. It is remembered that, when only two or three years old, he would march about the house drumming, and would convert all the chairs in the nursery into soldiers, or cannon, or other ih signia of war. In due time, however, he was sent by his uncle to school - first, to a preparatory seminary, kept by Miss Dawes, at Turnham Green, and afterwards to an academy at Ware, in Hertfordshire, where, although he developed no great amount of precocious genius, he made good progress, and took a respectable place in the school. He was always, indeed, fond of reading, and the books in which he most delighted were books of adventure, illus trative of self-help and self-reliance, or those which were largely tinged with the glowing imagery of the East. 'i have been reading Robinson Crusoe and the Tales of the Gem'i, ' he wrote to his brother Frederick, when he was ten years old. They have amused me very much. I hope that you love reading as I do, and also that you remember what you read.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historica