Jul 11, 2015 10:17 AM

Beatson's Mutiny: The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier

By Nigel Collett

On July 1856, Frederick Peel, under-secretary of state of war in Lord Palmerston's Liberal administration, rose in the House of Commons to answer a question criticizing the government's handling of the case of William Beatson. During the recent war against Russia, Beatson had been commander of the notorious Bahsi Bazouk irregular cavalry which the Turkish army had stationed in the Dardanelles:

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