William Lawrence ran away from an apprenticeship in Dorset to join the 40th Foot and fought through the Peninsular War, the attack on Buenos Aires and the battle of Waterloo. His memoir, published after his death, tells of sieges and marches, floggings and plunder, drum-majors’ staffs captured at Salamanca, and the Frenchwoman he married after the war.
One of the liveliest ranker’s memoirs of the Napoleonic Wars, prized by readers of Sharpe and military history alike. Download the free EPUB.