Memoirs and Services of the Eighty-third Regiment, County of Dublin, from 1793 to 1907

Name: Memoirs and Services of the Eighty-third Regiment, County of Dublin, from 1793 to 1907
Author: Edward William Bray

by Edward William Bray

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Description

"This Memoir [...] was originally arranged and prepared for publication, from September, 1793, [...] to September, 1863, by Brevet Major Edward William Bray, who was then serving with the Regiment. The later history, from 1864 up to present time, has been collected from the Authentic Records preserved in the Regimental Orderly Room."--Preface

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Full title

Memoirs and Services of the Eighty-third Regiment, County of Dublin, from 1793 to 1907 Including the Campaigns of the Regiment in the West Indies, Africa, the Peninsula, Ceylon, Canada, and India

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Duration

~2 hours (135K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Hugh Rees Ltd., 1908.

Credits

Brian Coe, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2021-12-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Great Britain -- History, Military Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 83rd (County of Dublin) -- History Great Britain. Army. Royal Irish Rifles. Battalion, 1st -- History

About the author

Edward William Bray

1823–1891

A British army officer who turned firsthand experience into vivid military history, he wrote about the First Anglo-Afghan War and the long service of the 83rd Regiment. His books offer a ground-level view of 19th-century campaigning, marching, and regimental life.

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