The military memoirs of an infantry officer, 1809-1816

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY ANDERSON & BRYCE.
THE
MILITARY MEMOIRS
OF AN
INFANTRY OFFICER.
1809-1816.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
BY ANDERSON & BRYCE.
MDCCCXXXIII.
The Work now submitted to the Public, contains an account of the Author's Campaigns during the most memorable period of the late French wars. It pretends to no eminence as a literary composition; but the Author trusts, that it will not be found wanting in accuracy of detail, as to facts falling under his own notice. He trusts that no one who opens it in hope of being amused, will shut it disappointed; and he sincerely hopes that the junior members of his own profession will find in it something which may prove useful to them when they are called upon to suffer hardships—to encounter dangers—and to perform duties similar to those recorded in the following pages.