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

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

Lt Colonel Willoughby Verner, The Rifle

Paperback

Military BiographiesNapoleonic Wars

ISBN10: 1843423960
ISBN13: 9781843423966
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: Sep 18 2002
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One of the best and most justly famous of the many memoirs of a serving British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Born in Beverley in east Yorkshire, George Simmons began his military life in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon in the LIncoln Militia. He subsequently joined the 95th Rifles in order to help pay for his younger brothers' education. Simmons served throughout the thick of the Peninsular War under Wellington, doing his duty as a Rifleman in six campaigns up to 1814, and seeing action at the sieges of Ciudad Roderigo and Badajoz and the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, and finally of Waterloo. He was thrice severely wounded, but survived to write these memoirs, which were based on the letters he sent home to his impecunious but doting parents.

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