Rees Howell Gronow joined the Foot Guards in 1813, served under Wellington in Spain and France and fought at Waterloo, then spent decades in fashionable London and Paris. His reminiscences are a stream of anecdotes about generals and dandies, French soldiers’ bearing, gambling clubs, duels, Brummell, Almack’s and the manners of a vanished age.
A favourite source for historians and novelists of the Regency, full of gossip and colour. Download the free EPUB.