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Issue 90 - September 1997 The Crimean War and the Purchase of Commissions: two cartoons A Brief Account of the Dooar War of 1864-66 (by Conrad Bailey) Who was Responsible for the Death of the Prince Imperial? (by Digby Hague-Holmes) VMS VCs - or not? (by James Bancroft) Fashoda (by D.J.S. Murray) The Veteran Yeomanry in South Africa, 1901-1902 (by E.J. Pocock)    Issue 89 - June 1995 A Letter from Omdurman (by Michael Barthorp) The Army Medical Services in Queen Victoria's Wars: some Soures of Research (by Pete Starling) The Conductors of Supplies 1879-1892. Commissariat and Transport Department; Commissariat and Transport Staff (by Ian Bennett)   Issue 88 - March 1997 The Defence of the Chakdara (by Rod MacNeil) Major-General William Knox Leet, V.C., C.B. (by Richard Snow) Volonel: Charger of Lord Roberts (by E.C. Lanning) Lord Robert's Speech-Writer: Professor J.A. Cramb (by Roger T. Stearn) Disaster on Nicholson's Nek or Tchrengula (by Robin Droogleever)    Issue 87 - December 1996 Supply and Transport in the Boer War, 1899-1902 (by Ian Bennett) "We are the Sons of Empire after all": the Indian Ambulance Corps during the South African War, 1899-1902 (by Paul Tichmann) "All Serving Their Country", Nurse Lucy Fathers and the Boer War Memorial of Sleaford (by Wendy Atkin) After Nooitgedacht (by John C. Welch) "With Great Credit", Michael Harrison Orr and the Fight on New Zealand Hill (by John S. Sly) Tommy's Boer War Diary, What the British Soldier Thought of 'His' War (by Gilles Teulié) Moedwil - a Clash in the Guerilla War, 30th September 1901 (by Lionel Wulfsohn)    Issue 86 - September 1996 "Painted Mountain" - the author replies (by Ron Lock) "Painted Mountain" - (Ian Knight replies) Two Postscripts: Maharjpore and Saran Sar (by Michael Barthorp) "Congreve the Rocket Man": Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (by Roger Stearn) 100 Years Ago: the Battle of Adwa, 1 March 1896 (by Edwin Herbert)   Issue 85 - June 1996 Turkish Uniforms of the Crimean Era, as Depicted by General Vanson (by C.A. Norman) Sir Henry Marion Durand, 1812-1871 (by Roger T. Stearn) Tantia Topi: Traitor or Patriot? (by Brian Robson) A Figure of Merit (by Adrian Whiting) "Scum of the Earth" (by David Murray) The Defence of Edinburgh during the Great War of 1897 (by George Robinson) "Shaik Abdoolah", or the Reluctant Renegade: a Mutiny Mystery (by Peter Stanley)    Issue 84 - March 1996 Rediscovering a Little Known Zulu War Memorial: the Edendale Memorial to the Natal Native Horse (by Graham Dominy) "Captured!", the Strange Story and Thrilling Adventures of Trooper Grandier (by Ian Knight) Spears from Kreli's Kraal (by Ralph Moore-Morris) The World's Biggest Battle Picture (by Mark Coghlan) "Such generals as they have sent out!": Chelmsford's Major-Generals (by Ian F.W. Beckett) Blood on the Painted Mountain, a review article (by Huw Jones)    Issue 83 - December 1995 Sudanese Weapons of the Late 19th Century (by Ralph Moore-Morris) Oxford Military College 1876-1896 (by Roger T. Stearn) The Evolution of the Bengal Army 1862-95 (by Brian Robson) Majuba's "Rorke's Drift"? (by Ian Castle) How Every Schoolboy Knew: the Work of G.A. Henty (by Michael Barthorp) 100 Years On: the Jameson Raid (by Stephen Dance)    Issue 82 - September 1995 "Nothing could be more beautiful": The Charge of HM's 39th at Maharajpore 1845 (by James Falkner) "Mountain Gunners" - a Brief History of the Indian Mountain Artillery 1840-1914 (by Chris Kempton) The Burma War of 1851 (by George Dibley) The Causes of the Indian Mutiny (by Victor Sutcliffe) The Forgotten Mutiny (by Neil Roberts) The Reconstruction of the Bengal Army (by Brian Robson) Cavagnari's Coup de Main: the Projected Attack on Ali Masjid, October 1878 (by Ian F.W. Beckett) Better Preparation for War: Indian Army Reorganisations during the Victorian Era (by Jim Scudieri)   Issue 81 - June 1995 "Most Noble Colin&": Colin Mackenzie, 1806-1881 (by Roger T. Stearn) The 1st Sutherland Rifle Volunteers (Sutherland, Orkney and Caithness) (by George Robinson) "I would not have missed this for anything" - Freemantle before Cemetery Ridge (by James Falkner) The Eye of the Storm, Tweefontein, Christmas Morning 1901 - a Survivor's Account (by Stephen Dance) The Price of Military Fashion (by Ralph Moore Morris) Tommy and the Press during the Anglo-Boer War (by Gilles Teulié)