James Gardiner fought at Ramillies, rose as a dashing and dissolute cavalry officer, then underwent a dramatic religious conversion and became famous for his piety. His friend Philip Doddridge tells his life through his letters and conduct as an officer and husband, to his death leading his dragoons against the Jacobites at Prestonpans.
A classic of eighteenth-century evangelical biography, and a vivid portrait of a soldier of Marlborough’s age. Download the free EPUB.