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Octavo, 435 pp. Marbled, paper-covered boards, half leather, re-backed in a lighter-coloured leather with, what is possibly the original spine label. some rubbing and wear, especially at corners, but really a very nice copy of this rare title. The endpapers have possibly been renewed, but if so a very good match indeed. Former neat, owner's name to title page in pencil. Amongst all the soldiers' memoirs that came out of the Peninsular War very few (only two to my knowledge) were written by quartermasters. Although published posthumously, the memoir here was taken faithfully 'indeed literally' from the author's MS. Surtees [1781-1830] was born in Northumberland to a tradesman and received a reasonably good education. The memoir begins with his participation in the ill-fated Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. He ends up in Spain by way of Ireland and Denmark (when the British were besieging Copenhagen in 1807). As a quartermaster, he usually observes the war from a distance, but his memoir is no less…
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Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade
by William Surtees
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