AND BOMBAY

1900

This Edition is issued for circulation in India and the Colonies only.

CONTENTS

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[The Soldier in Literature][1]
I.[From Torres Vedras to Waterloo][23]
I.[A Young Soldier][28]
II.[Retreats and Pursuits][41]
III.[Some Famous Battles][62]
IV.[The Imminent Deadly Breach][86]
V.[In the Pyrenees][105]
VI.[Quatre Bras][116]
VII.[The Rifles at Waterloo][126]
II.[One of Craufurd's Veterans][139]
I.[The King's Shilling][144]
II.[In the Peninsula][153]
III.[When the Fight is Over][171]
IV.[A Memorable Retreat][178]
V.[Stern Scenes][194]
VI.[Some Famous Soldiers][209]
VII.[The "Tommy Atkins" of a Century Ago][222]
III.[A Royal Highlander][235]
I.[About Soldiers' Wives][241]
II.[Fighting in the Pyrenees][257]
III.[The Hillside at Toulouse][276]
IV.[The 42nd at Quatre Bras][287]
V.[The Highlanders at Waterloo][297]
IV.[With the Guns at Waterloo][307]
I.[Waiting for the Guns][311]
II.[On March to the Field][327]
III.[Quatre Bras][335]
IV.[The Retreat to Waterloo][350]
V.[Waterloo][370]
VI.[After the Fight][397]

WELLINGTON'S MEN

[THE SOLDIER IN LITERATURE]

This volume is an attempt to rescue from undeserved oblivion a cluster of soldierly autobiographies; and to give to the general reader some pictures of famous battles, not as described by the historian or analysed by the philosopher, but as seen by the eyes of men who fought in them. History treats the men who do the actual fighting in war very ill. It commonly forgets all about them. If it occasionally sheds a few drops of careless ink upon them, it is without either comprehension or sympathy. From the orthodox historian's point of view, the private soldier is a mere unconsidered pawn in the passionless chess of some cold-brained strategist. As a matter of fact a battle is an event which pulsates with the fiercest human passions—passions bred of terror and of daring; of the anguish of wounds and of the rapture of victory; of the fear and awe of human souls over whom there suddenly sweeps the mystery of death.