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Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence. a Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns.
Sergeant Lawrence?s memoir is one of the most important sources of information on life in the ranks during the Napoleonic Wars. Lawrence enlisted in the 40th Regt., served in the River Plate expedition, Peninsular 1809-14 (inc. Talavera, Busaco, Badajoz,
Hardcover
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264 pages
Published
June 20th 2006
by Naval & Military Press
(first published July 30th 1995)
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I'm a keen history reader and I very much enjoy these first hand memoirs of centuries past. This is a quick and easy read, and an enjoyable one, though not as good as some others of this genre. Sgt Lawrence was born in 1791 in the gloriously named Dorset village of Bryant's Piddle, and Lawrence paints a brief but effective picture of an inward looking rural village where the mere appearance of a stranger is enough to set off a wave of gossip and rumour. After being apprenticed to a builder, he r
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Fascinating account of life on campaign in the Peninsular War and then life as a veteran in Britain after the war.
It was a good read but I think that I preferred "The Recollections of Rifleman Harris". They were both personal accounts but Harris seemed less detached in a way.
Taken together they nicely complement Forester's Peninsular Campaign books, particularly "Death to the French" (Rifleman Dodd).
Taken together they nicely complement Forester's Peninsular Campaign books, particularly "Death to the French" (Rifleman Dodd).
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