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OF
GENERAL SIR WILLIAM-NAPIER,
K. C. B.,
AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR,' &c.
Carpentier
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD street,
AND CHARING CROSS.
123 N3A2
UNIV. OF
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
CHAPTER I.
Boyhood and school-days, page 3. Insurrection of 1798, 7. Early training, 7.
CHAPTER II.
Appointed to the army, 10. Lady Sarah Napier, 12. Early letters; defective
education, 13. Sir John Moore, 19. Habits and appearance, 27. In-
tercourse with Mr. Pitt and Lady Hester Stanhope, 28. Mr. Fox, 32.
CHAPTER III.
Feat of activity, 34. Copenhagen expedition; conduct of a German general,
35. His humanity and discipline, 37. Early escapade, 38. Operations
in Zealand, 42. Hardships during retreat to Corunna, 52. Military
zeal; combat of the Coa; wounded, 53. Combat of Cazal Nova, 55.
Personal narrative; desperately wounded, 55. Interesting anecdote,
58. Description of Spaniards, 65. Letters from Lord Wellington to
Lady Sarah Napier, 71, 75. Disgust with war, 73.
CHAPTER IV.
Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, 77. Curious narrative of the assault, 81.
CHAPTER V.
Storming of Badajoz; grief for the death of his friend Lieutenant-Colonel
McLeod, 87. Letters to his wife.
CHAPTER VI.
In command of the 43rd, 99. Salamanca, 101. Criticisms on Lord
Wellington, 104. Retreat from Burgos; personal narrative, 109.
Spanish discipline, 112. Remarks on Moscow campaign, 118. Letters
from Spain.