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GEORGE BRUCE MALLESON (1825-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 491 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:BRUCE See also:MALLESON (1825-1898)  , See also:Indian officer and author, was See also:born at See also:Wimbledon, on the 8th of May 1825 . Educated at See also:Winchester, he obtained• a cadetship in the See also:Bengal See also:infantry in 1842, and served through the second Burmese See also:War . His subsequent appointments were in the See also:civil See also:line, the last being that of See also:guardian to the See also:young maharaja of See also:Mysore.- He retired with the See also:rank of See also:colonel in 1877, having been created C.S.I. in ' See also:Bishop See also:Percy, was issued in 1770 under the See also:title of See also:Northern 1872 . He died at See also:Kensington, on the 1st of See also:March 1898 . He Antiquities (republished with additions in 1847) . The See also:book had was a voluminqus writer, his first See also:work to attract See also:attention a wide circulation, and attracted much attention on See also:account of being the famous " Red Pamphlet," published at See also:Calcutta in its being the first (though a very defective) See also:translation into 1857, when the See also:Mutiny was at its height . He continued, and See also:French of the See also:Edda . The See also:king of See also:Denmark showed his appreciaconsiderably rewrote the See also:History of the Indian Mutiny ( 6 vols., tion by choosing See also:Mallet to be See also:preceptor of the See also:crown See also:prince . In 1878–188o), which was begun but See also:left unfinished by See also:Sir See also:John 176o he returned to See also:Geneva, and became See also:professor of history in See also:Kaye . Among his other books the most valuable are History his native See also:city . While there he was requested by the czarina of the French in See also:India (2nd ed., 1893) and The Decisive Battles of to undertake the See also:education of the See also:heir-apparent of See also:Russia (after-India (3rd ed., 1888). wards the czar See also:Paul I.), but declined the See also:honour .

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