A boy in the Peninsular War

Chapter 42: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A young subaltern recounts roughly a decade of service with the 28th Regiment during the Peninsular campaigns, beginning as a fifteen-year-old recruit. The narrative combines vivid accounts of marches, bivouacs, and set-piece battles with intimate anecdotes from mess life, language-learning on the road, and close friendships formed under fire. The author praises commanders and comrades while candidly describing fear, courage, and the harsh realities of combat, including the brutal aftermath of stormed towns. Personal reflection and straightforward reporting alternate with moments of enthusiastic admiration for the soldierly virtues he witnessed.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

The author often omitted commas in simple in-line lists and between adjectives.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Sidenotes in this eBook originally were odd-page running headers, and have been placed between paragraphs near the pages on which they appeared. They are not always at the beginning of the subjects they summarize. Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.