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LECKINSKI'S TRIALS; A TALE OF THE PENINSULAR WAR

... AZBCZXNSILZ's TIMAnus A TALX OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. 11The Duchess ?? (Madame Junot), in her1 Memoirs, gives tse following very interesting 1 traitof heroic fortitude on the part of a young Polish officer. His presence of mind was as remarkable as ...

LITERATURE

... vy Sir Richard D. llenegan. London: Henry Colburn. Numerous as have been the sketches of events in the ever- memorable Peninsular war, given to the public, the appetite for this exciting species of reading is far from palled. Much as we have read on the ...

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... (which he assures us is true to the letter), as a description of some of the frolics indulged in by our officers during the Peninsular war. Taking Colonel Leach at his word, we regret to learn such low-indeed we might say, inhuman-practical jokes were current ...

THE MIRROR OF FASHION

... WHrLLiNToq as his Aide-de- Camp dutrinr the whale of the Peninsular war, and was with. him in every anion and siege.fronn the battle of Talavera to thai of Ortbes. At the termination of the war he went to Brussels, where hts regiment was quar- tered, ...

LITERATURE

... justifies him in going into more than ordinary details. The voltne comprises the events of a brilliant era ii British ?? Peninsular war; anid though, (us this subject, the author hls had little else to do than to condense attd arrange tite amnple store of ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... March equal te any ?? of the kind In the language Tho memoirs of the gallant dragoon promise to furnish a histor of the Peninsular war, correct, w seuppose, in the main, and rendered additionally attrective by personal adventures, which mayor maynet have ...

VARIETIES

... on a moral conviction that the art of war is contrary to the Christian sehigioo..Hampshire Tele. graph. We have heard that it is intended to invite Colonel Na. pier, author of the history of the Peninsular War, to re. preient the city of Glasgow in ...

FASHIONS AND VARIETIES

... heir, on Sunday'last, at Bath. Her ladyship is daughter of the gallant: Colonel Napier, author of the History of the Peninsular War. Viscount and Viscountess Howick entertained the Earl and Countessof Minto, his Excellency Count Senift, and a ,distinguished ...

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... account can elsewhere be ob- tainedi. Lifseoftl. Duke qf WelDlivton. LoosmAN & Co. Part VLlf inthteresting record brings the Peninsular War to the year 1813. fnd the detahlls are alone suaficient to dte. m sto ae the year ttraordinarv skill and prescience evinced ...

LITERATURE

... prefixed to biographical notices of the late Isaac D'Iiraeli, Esq. and Sir Harry Smith, the hero of Aliwal. STORY OF TNE PENINSuLAR WAR. By the Marquis of Lou- donderrv. London: Henry Colburn. A new and carefully revised edition. with considerable ad- ditions ...

FASHIONS AND VARIETIES

... 13, Upper Gloucester-place, * Regent's Perk. It appears that the colonel, who had seen fea great deal of service in the Peninsular war and in other e-campaigns, was conversing with his brother when suddhenly ath he fell off his chairiii a fitaof-apoplexy ...

SIR G. MURRAY AND COLONEL NAPIER

... of the Peninsular War. 'he interview took placa, but Sir (i urge Murray, far from giving me infornlition, seemed intent upon persuading me ti nbsnron msy dlesign, rep atifig continually that it was his intention to write the hiitory of the war himself ...