The Author.

[CONTENTS]

[ LIST OF THE PLATES]

[Starting to join his Regiment]To face the Title
[Johnny Newcome going to lay in Stock]To face p.36
[Getting into his Billet]”41
[Taking his Breakfast]”49
[Introduced to his Colonel]”62
[Smells powder for the first time]”76
[Half Rations]”78
[Johnny writes an account of the Action to his Mother, which afterwards appears in the Star]”79
[Learning to Smoke and drink Grog]”80
[Poor Johnny on the sick List]”83
[Going Sick to the Rear]”85
[Johnny safe returned to his Mama]”94
[Dash’d with his Suite for Santarem that Night]”152
[Johnny on Duty with his Chief]”158
[Presenting the Trophies]”236

[ THE MILITARY ADVENTURES
OF
JOHNNY NEWCOME]

On Ludgate Hill, a traveller may see

John Newcome, Grocer, No. Fifty-three;

Now, sober reader, don’t turn up your nose,