Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade

Name: Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade
Author: William Surtees

by William Surtees

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Steven Gibbs, Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

Release date

2011-07-19

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Public domain in the USA.

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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) -- Biography Peninsular War, 1807-1814 -- Personal narratives, British Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Personal narratives, British Surtees, William, 1781-1830 United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Personal narratives, British

About the author

William Surtees

1781–1830

A former Rifle Brigade quartermaster turned his years of service into a vivid firsthand memoir of the Napoleonic Wars. His writing stands out for its plain, observant voice and its close-up view of life in the ranks.

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