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,