Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A Soldier of the Seventy-first, From De la Plata to Waterloo 1806-1815, Joseph Sinclair.

A Soldier of the Seventy-first, From De la Plata to Waterloo 1806-1815, Joseph Sinclair.

The memoir of an educated private soldier who enlisted in the British after a family argument, and who went on to serve in South American, Walcheren and the Peninsular War, producing a thoughtful and literate account of the life of a private soldier in a period when very few of his fellow private soldiers left any record of their experiences

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