British Rifle Man
The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons
Published on 11. April 2012
416 pages
978-1-78150-891-6 (ISBN)
Description
One of the best and most justly famous of the many memoirs of a serving British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Beverley in east Yorkshire, George Simmons began his military life in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon in the LIncoln Militia. He subsequently joined the 95th Rifles in order to help pay for his younger brothers' education. Simmons served throughout the thick of the Peninsular War under Wellington, doing his duty as a Rifleman in six campaigns up to 1814, and seeing action at the sieges of Ciudad Roderigo and Badajoz and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and finally of Waterloo. He was thrice severely wounded, but survived to write these memoirs, which were basaed on the letters he sent home to his impecunious but doting parents.
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British Rifle Man
The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade During the Peninsular War and Campaign of Waterloo
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Title Page Verso
- Dedication
- List of Sketch Maps
- Introduction
- Body Matter
- Commencement of the Peninsular War Campaign of 1808
- Campaign of 1809
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
