A British Rifle Man

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Author

Simmons, George, 1785-1858

Title

A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo

Credits

E-text prepared by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco

Subject

Peninsular War, 1807-1814

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50744

Release Date

December 22, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note: — A BRITISH RIFLE MAN — SKETCH MAPS — CONTENTS — INTRODUCTION
2. 2.COMMENCEMENT OF THE PENINSULAR WAR CAMPAIGN OF 1808 — CAMPAIGN OF 1809 — CHAPTER I — Letter No. I — Journal—25th May-15th July 1809 — Letter No. II
3. 3.CHAPTER II — Journal—18th July-10th December 1809 — Letter No. III — Letter No. IV — Journal—11th December-31st December 1809
4. 4.CAMPAIGN OF 1810 — CHAPTER III Campaign of 1810 — Journal—1st January-27th February 1810 — Letter No. V — Journal—4th March-30th April 1810 — Affair of Barba del Puerco — Letter No. VI
5. 5.CHAPTER IV — Journal—7th May-8th August 1810 — Combat of the Coa — Letter No. VII
6. 6.CHAPTER V — Journal—15th August-30th September — Letter No. VIII — Journal—1st October-31st December 1810 — Letter No. IX
7. 7.CAMPAIGN OF 1811 — CHAPTER VI — Letter No. X — Journal—20th January-25th March 1811 — Fight of Pombal — Combat of Redinha — Action of Cazal Nova — Combat of Foz de Aronce — Letter No. XI
8. 8.CHAPTER VII — Journal—26th March-25th May 1811 — Action of Sabugal — Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro — Letter No. XII
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII — Journal—26th May-21st August 1811 — Letter No. XIII — Journal—29th August-September 1811 — Letter No. XIV — Journal—1st October-20th December 1811 — Letter No. XV
10. 10.CAMPAIGN OF 1812 — CHAPTER IX — Journal—4th January-30th July 1812 — Storming of Ciudad Rodrigo — Storming of Fort Picurina — Storming of Badajoz — Battle of Salamanca
11. 11.CHAPTER X — Journal—1st-31st August 1812 — Letter No. XVI — Journal—1st September-31st December 1812 — Combat of the Huebra (San Munoz) — Letter No. XVII — Letter No. XVIII
12. 12.CAMPAIGN OF 1813 — CHAPTER XI — Letter No. XIX — Letter No. XX — Postscript, written across the Preceding by George Simmons — Journal—1st May-30th August 1813 — Battle of Vitoria
13. 13.CHAPTER XII — Letter No. XXI — Journal—31st August-31st December 1813 — Forcing the Pass of Vera — Battle of the Nivelle — Letter No. XXII
14. 14.CAMPAIGN OF 1814 — CHAPTER XIII — Journal—12th January-21st March 1814 — Battle of Orthez — Action of Tarbes — Letter No. XXIII — Finished by Maud Simmons — Journal—13th April-23rd July 1814
15. 15.CAMPAIGN OF 1815 — CHAPTER XIV — Journal—25th April-June 1815 — Letter No. XXIV — Journal—15th-18th June 1815 — Letter No. XXV — Letter No. XXVI — Letter No. XXVII
16. 16.CONCLUSION — APPENDIX I — APPENDIX II Medical Certificates — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Note:

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