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Journal of a Soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry from 1806 to 1815: Rare memoir of an Edinburgh soldier who saw action in South America and the Peninsula under Wellington
by James Todd
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Beckley, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Title, advertisement leaf, Contents. 232 pages. Original paper covered boards, new endpapers, cream paper spine. A nice, sympathetically restored copy re-using the original boards.. Mild grubbiness, else VG.
Gift inscription dated 1821 to front flyleaf. On the title page the name Capt Pococke has been added then scored through in pencil. Above the words 'sedond edition' the name Thomas Howell has been added. Though neither is correct.
The Journal is usually attributed to Captain Thomas Pococke or Thomas Howell. Recent research, however has shown that Howell was the editor and not the author. G. Jones in the Bulletin of the Military Historical Society for May 1992 wrote that the Royal Highland Fusiliers owns a copy of the third edition inscribed by Howell, who writes 'the real name of the hero is not Thomas, the Christian name used in the Journal - James Todd is the individual I got the greater part of the journal from.'
Most of the memoir concerns the Peninsular Campaign under Wellington ending at Waterloo. The early chapters however military action at the Battle of Monetvideo under the unfortunate Whitelocke.
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- Bookseller
- Wool House Autographic
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40
- Title
- Journal of a Soldier of the 71st, or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry from 1806 to 1815
- Author
- James Todd
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- second
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Balfour and Clarke for William and Charles Tait and others
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1819
- Pages
- 232
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Peninsular campaignr Napoleonica military memoir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Napoleonic Wars;
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Wool House Autographic
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Beckley, East Sussex
About Wool House Autographic
I deal largely in autograph material; letters, manuscripts and documents, occasionally art works and books that I find curious or interesting.
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