ROUGH SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF AN OLD SOLDIER 9781474540919 NEW & FREEPOST IN UK
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Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Leach with this memoir offers a first-hand account of the newly formed light infantry division, at an interesting and turbulent time for the division. Leach offers here an unbroken narrative; almost every scene recounted in this work was one to which he was an eyewitness and recorded in his journal. For other scenes, the author utilised the logbooks of his brother officers.\nThis is one of the great classics of military service during the Napoleonic Wars. The full title of this tome is \u201CROUGH SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF AN OLD SOLDIER during a service in the West Indies; at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807; in the Peninsula and the south of France in the campaigns from 1808 to 1814, with the Light division; in the Netherlands in 1815; including the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo: with a slight sketch of the three years passed by the army of occupation in France, etc.\u201D \nThis reprint is taken from the first edition (1831) of this important wo.
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