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A Boy in the Peninsular War [electronic resource]

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The Peninsular War was the first of Britain's many foreign conflicts in which increasing literacy produced a bumper crop of memoirs, not only by Generals and senior officers, but by ordinary rankers and subalterns too. This book is one of the very best. It's author, Robert Blakeney, enlisted in 1804 in the 28th regiment of Infantry as an Irish boy at the tender age of fifteen. As such, he was in at the beginning of the long war in the Iberian peninsular, and stuck through to the end, witness...

Title A Boy in the Peninsular War [electronic resource].
Additional Titles A Boy in the Peninsular War
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Luton : Andrews UK
Creation Date 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
English
Content Cover
Contents
Front Matter
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Body Matter
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Back Matter
Index
Extent 1 online resource (397 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010717639905171
MARC RECORDS
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