
Full title
A Boy in the Peninsular War The Services, Adventures and Experiences of Robert Blakeney
Language
en
Duration
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Brian Coe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2018-02-19
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
b. 1789
An Irish soldier turned memoirist, he wrote one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of the Peninsular War. His story follows a teenager who joined the army in 1804 and recorded the danger, hardship, and strange luck of campaigning in Spain and Portugal.
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