It is Christmas 1869.
What he does no.
Jeremy is now a contented married man with a young son, and he is about to enter the world of England\'s Second Industrial Revolution.
The events of the Crimean War in Russia followed by the Sepoy Mutiny in India-a devil\'s Wind of betrayal, murder, and horrible reprisals-are memories never to be forgotten.
Nine years have passed since Jeremy Maitland\'s return to England-six years since his days as a sergeant in The 60 th King\'s Royal Rifle Corps.
It is Christmas 1869