Random Shots from a Rifleman Sir John Kincaid served in the 95th Rifles, later the famed Rifle Brigade, throughout the Peninsular War and during the Belgian Campaign. This book is a follow-up to "Adventures in the Rifle Brigade," whose success spurred the author into publishing a second tome of recollections. His style is witty, pithy and framed with a long and hard fought insight into the warfare of the period. His Reminisce... Full description
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Whbij I aent my volume of Adventures in the Rifle Brigade into the world, some one of its many kind and indulgent critics was imprudent enough to say that it had one fault, the rarest fault in books it was too short; and while I have therefore endeavoured to acquit myself of such an unlooked-for charge, by sending this additional one, I need only observe that if it also fails to satisfy, they may have yet ano2j ther.
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