Bancroft of the Bengal Horse Artillery Gunners with Red horse-hair helmets The author of this book set his heart on joining "The Red Men"-the glamorous members of the Bengal Horse Artillery-during boyhood. He achieved his ambition and this book principally concerns his experiences with that famous regiment during the First Sikh War as the British Empire fought to curtail the power of the Sikhs of the Punjab in India. Bancroft was ever ... Full description