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قراءة كتاب The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns
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The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns
CHAPTER I.
Starting in Life 1
CHAPTER II.
Enlisted and ordered Abroad 9
CHAPTER III.
The River Plate Expedition—Monte Video 16
CHAPTER IV.
The River Plate Expedition, continued—Colonia 26
CHAPTER V.
The River Plate Expedition, concluded—Buenos Ayres 35
CHAPTER VI.
The Peninsula, 1809—Vimeira—Lisbon 42
CHAPTER VII.
Talavera 51
CHAPTER VIII.
1810—Busaco 59
CHAPTER IX.
Torres Vedras 67
CHAPTER X.
1811—Pombal, Redinha, &c. 77
CHAPTER XI.
Siege of Badajoz—Albuera 87
1812—Ciudad Rodrigo 95
CHAPTER XIII.
Badajoz 107
CHAPTER XIV.
Invalided—Promotion 120
CHAPTER XV.
1813—Vittoria 131
CHAPTER XVI.
The Pyrenees—Villebar 143
CHAPTER XVII.
The Nive—Further Promotion 154
CHAPTER XVIII.
San Sebastian—Nivelle 167
CHAPTER XIX.
1814—Orthes—The Adour—Toulouse 175
CHAPTER XX.
End of the War 185
CHAPTER XXI.
To America and back—Napoleon's escape from Elba 194
CHAPTER XXII.
Waterloo 204
CHAPTER XXIII.
Paris—Matrimony 217
CHAPTER XXIV.
Return to Great Britain 227
CHAPTER XXV.
Family matters 233
CHAPTER XXVI.
Pensioned and Discharged 245
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SERGEANT WILLIAM LAWRENCE.
CHAPTER I.
Lawrence's Parentage — Birth and early training — Apprenticed — He falls out with his master — Is beaten and resolves to leave — A few words to masters in general — Finds a companion — Precautions against being forgotten too soon — To Poole viâ Wareham — Engages for a voyage to Newfoundland — Recaptured and sent back, but escapes again on the way — Receives some good advice, and starts to Dorchester, picking up some fresh company on the way.
As I have been asked to furnish as complete an account as I am able of my own life, and it is usual when people undertake