This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...the other I lost at a fire in Fredericton in 1895. The island of St. Helena is seven miles wide and ten miles long, and the natives are very kind to Europeans. Talking of Bonaparte brings to my mind a brief story I often heard my father repeat, which it may not be out of place to mention here. Previous to the battle of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...the other I lost at a fire in Fredericton in 1895. The island of St. Helena is seven miles wide and ten miles long, and the natives are very kind to Europeans. Talking of Bonaparte brings to my mind a brief story I often heard my father repeat, which it may not be out of place to mention here. Previous to the battle of Waterloo (where my father was present), a young officer approached the Duke of Wellington and asked for leave for the day, stating that his father and mother had just arrived, and wished him to remain with them for a few hours. The Iron Duke, so called, looked at him, and after obtaining his name, replied, " Well, my fine young gentleman, I am glad that you honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land; but as our force attacks the foe to-day you cannot have the leave, but must, like a good British soldier, face your enemy." The regiment having arrived at Dover in July, 1861, after a voyage of over three months, commenced soldiering once more with harder work than we had in India; and as our recruits were not yet fit for all kinds of a soldier's duty, the work became harder on the older soldiers of the regiment. I now had plenty to do in the two capacities, that of color-sergeant, and sergeant-major. At the end of August my brother and I obtained a furlough for three weeks, and went to Glasgow, Scotland, to see one of our sisters who was married there. On our return to the regiment I went to the School of Musketry at Hythe, and fourteen days afterwards returned to my regiment with a qualified first-class certificate from that school. But for the time absent in both cases I had to pay the colorsergeant the allowance, six pence per day, which was made to me as acting sergeant-major. Regarding the course of ...
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