Publisher's Synopsis
FAILED ACTOR TO SOLDIER & NINE YEARS SERVICE (FROM 1806-1815) A YOUNG SCOT'S EXPERIENCES OF WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA, SPAIN & FINALLY AT WATERLOO - Originally written anonymously this is the first-hand account of a 16 year old Edinburgh man who joins the Highland Light Infantry and lives to regret it! Campaign life and brutal action is related in a succinct, intelligent style. This fascinating view of a rankers trials and suffering comes from the pen of a very uncommon common soldier
