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The Military Sketch-Book. Vol. 1 (of 2) / Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at home

Chapter 1: THE MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK.
By William Maginn
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A collection of lively, often comic sketches and memoir-like vignettes drawn from seventeen years of service, alternating personal anecdotes, barracks and guard-house scenes, mess-table conversation, campaign journals, duels, and encounters in distant colonies. The pieces range from frank first-week impressions and disciplinary episodes to battlefield recollections and travel hardships, combining satire, pathos, and military detail. Voice shifts between humorous narration and reflective observation, with recurring focuses on camaraderie, folly, duty, and the contrasts between domestic routine and foreign campaigning. The arrangement balances standalone tales with journal fragments to evoke the variety of soldierly experience.

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Title: The Military Sketch-Book. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Author: William Maginn

Release date: December 10, 2018 [eBook #58449]

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK. VOL. 1 (OF 2) ***

THE
MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK.

VOL. I.

IN THE PRESS.

THE LANCERS.

IN THREE VOLUMES

LONDON:

PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.

THE

MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK.

REMINISCENCES OF

SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE SERVICE

ABROAD AND AT HOME.

BY AN OFFICER OF THE LINE.

“The wight can tell
A melancholy and a merry tale
Of field, and fight, and chief, and lady gay.”

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1827.

In presenting these Sketches to the public, the Author begs leave to say, that although in their production he sometimes indulged his imagination, fancy has only been employed to decorate truth. Facts form the ground-work of his book; and although the ornaments may have been carelessly or tastelessly placed, real incidents have neither been obscured nor distorted.

To the gentleman who supplied the Author with the necessary hints for the sketch entitled “Mess Table Chat, (No. IV.)” and also to the gallant officer whose memory and kindness furnished him with the facts relative to the Bush-rangers of Van Diemen's Land, the Author returns his most sincere thanks.