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9781845749255: Recollections of Rifleman Harris
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ISBN 10 : 1845749251 ISBN 13 : 9781845749255
Editeur : Naval & Military Press, 2015

Synopsis

Although there are many accounts of the Peninsular War by fighting men, this book is justly famed because it is a rarity: a memoir dictated by a ranker in Sir John Moore’s army. At a time when many members of his class were illiterate, Benjamin Harris, a ‘Dorsetshire sheep-boy’ serving in the 95th Regiment of Foot from 1803 conveys the hard life of an old sweat fighting both the French and the Iberian climate in lively and vivid prose. Harris records the sicknesses and medicines suffered by ordinary soldiers; recounts the savage punishment of a fellow Rifleman, and the cut and thrust of military life from a distinctly worm’s eye view, giving invaluable insights into the life of an ordinary soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. The book’s editor, Henry Curling, persuaded Harris to recount his memoirs when he met him while Harris was working as a London cobbler in the 1830s. First published in 1848, this memoir remains one of the most valuable documents to have come down to us from the early Peninsular War.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Although there are many accounts of the Peninsular War by fighting men, this book is justly famed because it is a rarity: a memoir dictated by a ranker in Sir John Moore’s army. At a time when many members of his class were illiterate, Benjamin Harris, a ‘Dorsetshire sheep-boy’ serving in the 95th Regiment of Foot from 1803 conveys the hard life of an old sweat fighting both the French and the Iberian climate in lively and vivid prose. Harris records the sicknesses and medicines suffered by ordinary soldiers; recounts the savage punishment of a fellow Rifleman, and the cut and thrust of military life from a distinctly worm’s eye view, giving invaluable insights into the life of an ordinary soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. The book’s editor, Henry Curling, persuaded Harris to recount his memoirs when he met him while Harris was working as a London cobbler in the 1830s. First published in 1848, this memoir remains one of the most valuable documents to have come down to us from the early Peninsular War.

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Éditeur
Naval & Military Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845749251
ISBN 13 
9781845749255
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Éditeur
Curling Henry
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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