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A subaltern's memoir of service with the Connaught Rangers during the Peninsular campaigns, offering vivid, often graphic accounts of major engagements — Busaco, Fuentes d’Onoro, El Bodon, the sieges and storms of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, Salamanca, and the retreat from Burgos — alongside descriptions of daily regimental life, shortages, wounds, and practical improvisations. The narrative mixes detailed battle description and dark humour, recording colourful comrades, surgeons, and servants, and reflecting on leadership, discipline, and the psychology of stormers. Occasional digressions into wider campaign matters appear, but the core remains immediate frontline observation and anecdotal portraiture of an Irish infantry battalion.

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Title: Adventures with the Connaught Rangers, 1809-1814

Author: William Grattan

Editor: Charles Oman

Release date: September 19, 2018 [eBook #57936]

Language: English

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ADVENTURES WITH THE CONNAUGHT
RANGERS

ADVENTURES WITH THE
CONNAUGHT RANGERS
1809–1814

BY
WILLIAM GRATTAN, Esq.
LATE LIEUTENANT CONNAUGHT RANGERS
EDITED BY
CHARLES OMAN
FELLOW OF ALL SOULS' COLLEGE AND DEPUTY PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED
WITH A PREFACE, NOTES, AND MAPS
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
1902
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