Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier
by J. Leach
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About this eBook
- Author
- Leach, J. (Jonathan), 1784-1855
- Title
- Rough sketches of the life of an old soldier : during a service in the West Indies; at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807; in the Peninsula and the south of France in the campaigns from 1808 to 1814, with the Light Division; in the Netherlands in 1815; including the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo; with a slight sketch of the three years passed by the army of occupation in France, &c., &c., &c.
- Original Publication
- London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831.
- Credits
- MWS, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Personal narratives
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 79419
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79419
- Release Date
- August 22, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ROUGH · SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF AN OLD SOLDIER:
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.CHAPTER I.
- 5.CHAPTER II.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — BATTLE OF ROLEIA — BATTLE OF VIMEIRA
- 7.CHAPTER IV.
- 8.CHAPTER V.
- 9.CHAPTER VI.
- 10.CHAPTER VII.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — NIGHT ATTACK ON OUR POST AT BARBA DEL PUERCO.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — ACTION AT THE COA
- 13.CHAPTER X. — BATTLE OF BUZACO.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. — 1811. MASSENA’S RETREAT OUT OF PORTUGAL. — ACTION NEAR SABUGAL
- 15.CHAPTER XII. — BATTLE OF FUENTES D’ONORO.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. — STORMING OF CIUDAD RODRIGO — STORMING OF BADAJOZ
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. — BATTLE OF SALAMANCA
- 18.CHAPTER XV. — DIVISION OF THE INFANTRY IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1813.
- 19.CHAPTER XVI. — AFFAIR NEAR ST. MILLAN.
- 20.CHAPTER XVII. — BATTLE OF VITTORIA.
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — PASSAGE OF THE BIDASSOA, AND STORMING THE FRENCH ENTRENCHMENTS AT VERA. — BATTLE OF THE NIVELLE
- 22.CHAPTER XIX. — BATTLES OF THE NIVE. — ACTION NEAR TARBES
- 23.CHAPTER XX. — BATTLE OF TOULOUSE.
- 24.CHAPTER XXI. — BATTLE OF QUATRE BRAS
- 25.CHAPTER XXII. — BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
- 26.CHAPTER XXIII.
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