Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself

Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself

Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself - Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello, K.S.F. Formerly a...
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Author: Costello, Edward,1788-1869
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Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself

Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself

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Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself

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Author: Costello, Edward,1788-1869
Format: eBook
Language: English

Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself - Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello, K.S.F. Formerly a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Rifle Brigade, Late Captain in the British Legion, and Now One of the Wardens of the Tower of London; Comprising Narratives of the Campaigns in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, and the Subsequent Civil Wars in Spain.

So many Lives of Soldiers have already been written, and by abler pens than mine, and so many tales have arisen out of the chequered scenes of the late Peninsular War, and the short existence of the British Legion, that I dare not be very sanguine of creating for my work any great degree of interest. But every mans life is a volume of change, felt and expressed according to his peculiar dispositions and feelings, which are as varied under a military as they can be under a civil life. Could the never to be forgotten Tom Crawley but give his own detail!could Long Tom of Lincoln, once one of the smartest of our regiment, now the forlorn bone-picker of Knightsbridge, but pen his own eventful trackcould Wilkie, Hetherington, Plunket, and many others of those humbler heroes, conquerors in such well-contested fields as Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, and Waterloo, &c., whose exploits form the principal attractions in this volume, and whose stubborn spirits and perforated [vi]bodies formed key-stones for the fame of our immortal Wellington, whose standard might have found a sandy support but for the individual bravery of the soldiers of his invincible divisions: could they but recount their varied casts of fortunewho would fail to read their histories and help to rear a cypress to their memories? With these considerations, I send this volume forth, trusting that the reader will bear in mind that he who wrote it was both actor and spectator in the scenes he has narrated, and feels assured that by their perusal, he will be enabled to guess at what is generally felt and experienced by the individual soldier. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50181
Author: Costello, Edward
Release Date: Oct 11, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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