Publisher's Synopsis
This is the real soldier's view of the battles and campaigns that set Europe and America alight at the turn of the 18th Century. Includes 14 eyewitness accounts of the battles, the privations and the adventure of armed service during the French Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Read the true story taken from memoirs, letters and diaries
by characters such as Rifleman Harris in the Peninsular Wars, and Captain Cavalie Mercer at Waterloo.
