The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome / With an Account of his Campaign on the Peninsula and in Pall Mall
THE MILITARY ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY NEWCOME
‘He jests at Scars, who never felt a Wound’
— Shakespeare
Starting to join his Regiment.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAMPAIGN ON THE PENINSULA AND IN PALL MALL AND NOTES
BY AN OFFICER
WITH FIFTEEN COLOURED SKETCHES BY T. ROWLANDSON
A NEW EDITION
METHUEN AND CO. LONDON 1904
This Issue is founded on the original Edition printed for Patrick Martin in the year 1816.
Gentlemen,
I shall, I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when, in dedicating this humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt the only means in my power of shewing how much I honour and admire them.