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Sergeant Lawrence - With the 40th Regt. of Foot in South America, the Peninsular War & at Waterloo (Hardcover, New)
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Sergeant Lawrence - With the 40th Regt. of Foot in South America, the Peninsular War & at Waterloo (Hardcover, New)
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The Peninsular War and Waterloo told in an ordinary British
infantryman's own words
Young Dorset-man William Lawrence had no appetite to be apprenticed
to an abusive builder. He attempted to sign on as a sailor bound
for Newfoundland, but when that failed he launched himself into a
military career in the 40th regiment of foot. He was now a
red-coated infantryman of the British Army at a time when there
would be years of continual war-first with Spain during the River
Plate Expedition in South America and then in the Iberian peninsula
fighting under the command of the Duke of Wellington against
Napoleon's invading French army. Lawrence adapted well to the life
of a soldier and was no angel. He stole, looted and absconded and
had the marks of the lash on his back to show for it. Yet he was
also the consummate soldier-a typical, tough, hard-fighting
component of the army that could 'go anywhere and do anything'. He
fought in most of the famous engagements of the Peninsular War
including it's most bloody assault at Badajoz. After Napoleon's
abdication Lawrence sailed to America, only to return in time for
the momentous battle of Waterloo of which he gives us an often
quoted account. This are Lawrence's entire recollections told in
his own simple dispassionate style-essential as a memoir of the
quintessential British infantryman on campaign during the
Napoleonic Age.
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