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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington - The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington - The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Reason to Revolution
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William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the
later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the
Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from
the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins his
memoirs with a rare account, he was first commissioned into the
crack 52nd Light Infantry and served with that regiment in the
campaigns of 1810 and 1811. Promotion then took him into the 12th
Light Dragoons and, after a spell at home due to illness, he joined
his new regiment in the field just as Wellington's army began its
retreat from Burgos. Thereafter, Hay served with the 12th for the
remainder of the Peninsular War and again during the Waterloo
campaign. A well-connected young man, he spent some of his time
away from the regiment on staff duties, serving as an aide to Lord
Dalhousie in the Peninsula and later to the same officer again
during his tenure as Governor General of British North America.
Hay's recollections are very much those of a dashing young officer,
and, if not quite rivalling Marbot for imagination, there is no
denying that he is the hero of his own epic. But these are more
than just tales of derring-do, for Hay's stories of the lighter
side of military life do much to illuminate the character and
attitudes of Britain's Napoleonic officer corps. There is also no
question but that Hay was a competent and effective officer who did
good service in a number of important campaigns, and an old
soldier's tendency to polish his recollections should take nothing
from that. However, in order to help the reader better judge when
Hay is remembering events with advantage, this edition of his
memoirs is introduced and annotated by historian Andrew Bamford and
includes additional information to identify places, people, and
events and to otherwise add context to the original narrative.
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