Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade

The narrator recounts a long military career beginning as an enlisted man and rising to quartermaster in a light infantry regiment, offering firsthand accounts of expeditions in Holland, northern Europe, Denmark, and extensive campaigning on the Iberian Peninsula and into southern France. He records marches, sieges, skirmishes and major engagements, daily hardships, discipline and promotion, practical duties as quartermaster, and reflections on conduct and faith. The narrative mixes tactical description with vivid camp-life scenes, moral observation, and plain, unadorned prose, concluding with retirement due to ill health and appended letters and testimonies from comrades.