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ADVENTURES WITH THE
CONNAUGHT RANGERS
1809–1814
PREFACE
While engaged during the last ten years in the task ofmastering the original authorities of the history of theNapoleonic wars, I have had to peruse many scores of diaries,autobiographies, and reminiscences of the British militaryand naval officers who were engaged in the great struggle.They vary, of course, in interest and importance, in literaryvalue, and in the power of vivid presentation of events. Butthey have this in common, that they are almost all verydifficult to procure. Very few of them have been reprinted;indeed, I believe that the books of Lord Dundonald, SirJohn Kincaid, Gleig, John Shipp, and Colonel Mercer arewellnigh the only ones which have passed through a secondedition. Yet there are many others which contain matterof the highest interest, not only for the historical studentbut for every intelligent reader. From these I have made aselection of ten or a dozen which seem to me well worthrepublishing.
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