The Adventures of a Light Dragoon in the Napoleonic Wars - A Cavalryman During the Peninsular & Waterloo Campaigns, in Captivity & at the Siege of Bhu (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781846770562)

MORE ENGAGING THAN A NOVEL - A CAVALRYMAN'S LIFE IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND BATTLES FOR INDIA. Trooper Farmer's military career was packed with adventure and incident. Through his words the reader experiences life in the British Light Cavalry on campaign in Spain against the French. During one sharp action Farmer is taken prisoner and we follow him through captivity until his release at the First Restoration. Napoleon's return puts him back in the saddle once again to go to war on the bloody field of Waterloo. Although he had already experienced enough action for a lifetime Farmer was then dispatched to India to play his part in the early days of the conquest of the sub-continent. A gripping military memoir

Author: George Farmer, George Robert Gleig
ISBN-10: 1846770564
ISBN-13: 9781846770562
Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2006
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d