A Leicestershire Soldier in the Second Sikh War The final defeat of the Sikhs of the Punjab This book, originally humbly and ambiguously titled "Four Year"s Service in India", is a treasure trove for students of the Sikh Wars and of the experiences of an ordinary soldier of the early Victorian age who not only possessed the talent to relate his experiences, but who fortunately for posterity had the inclination for the task. This is the best of eyewitness accounts of war because it is a detailed and well observed view-in the main-of a comparatively short period of time. Much of Ryder"s book concerns the siege, storm and taking of the fortress stronghold of Mooltan and in this he has left us one of its mos...