Review of ‘The Making of a Rifles Officer’
The Making of A Rifles Officer The Life and Letters of Colonel George Miller CD FRS (1786-1843) By Elizabeth Laidlaw Burngrange
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Private Thomas Playford 2nd Life Guards
The departure of Bonaparte and his armed followers from the island of Elba in the spring of 1815, with their sudden appearance
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Second Lieutenant Richard Cocks Eyre
2nd Battalion 95th Foot Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 3 On the seventeenth we had some hard skirmishing
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Sergeant Charles Ewart, Scots Greys
Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 3 The day on which the flag and eagle was taken was the eighteenth of
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Corporal John Stubbings King’s Dragoon Guards
From Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 3 I take the first opportunity that lays in my power of informing you that I
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Rifleman Friedrich Lindau, 2nd Light Battalion KGL
Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive 2 Towards evening we marched through a field of high corn that we trampled
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Lieutenant Colonel G. von Muller, 2nd Line Battalion King’s German Legion
Extract from Gareth Glover’s Waterloo Archive Vol. 2 The 2nd Line Battalion was part of the division of Lieutenant
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An Unknown Sergeant of the Scots Greys
Extract From Waterloo Archive Volume 1 By Gareth Glover Brussels 25 June 1815 Dear wife, I am happy through the help of God
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Captain Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Foot Guards
Extract From A Young Gentleman at War By Gareth Glover Brussels 21st June 1815 On Thursday the 15th I left Grammont to come
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General Sir Henry Clinton
Extract From From Sir Henry Clinton’s Correspondence in two volumes by Gareth Glover) Sunday 18th Upon my arrival with
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Colonel George Blathwayt 23rd Light Dragoons
Extract from Recollections of my life including Military Service At Waterloo – By Gareth Glover On the sixteenth of
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