Recollections of the Peninsula: The Spellmount Library of Military History - Couverture souple

Sherer, Moyle

 
9781873376669: Recollections of the Peninsula: The Spellmount Library of Military History

Synopsis

Reissued more than 170 years after its first publication, a facsimile edition of one of the accounts of the Peninsular War.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The following pages have occupied and amused the leisure of my winter evenings, in a dull uninteresting garrison on home service. I relate what I saw, thought, and felt, as a man, a traveller, and a soldier, during five interesting years. The style of a soldier can need no apology; it is beneath the notice of a scholar and the critic. We pass our lives in conversing with mankind; they in conversing with books. We only observe and draw hasty conclusions ;they observe, compare, and study. Ours is a life of action; theirs of repose. We write to amuse; they to instruct.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

A vivid account by an officer who fought throughout the Peninsular War with the 34th Foot (The Border Regiment) and was present at the capture of the Arroyo Drums. Written soon after the events, these memoirs provide keen insights into Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic Era.

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