Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula France and the Netherlands From 1809 to 1815 (Esprios Classics)

I joined the second battalion rifle brigade (then the ninety-fifth) at Hythe-Barracks in the spring of 1809 and in a month after we proceeded to form a part of the expedition to Holland under the Earl of Chatham.With the usual Quixotic feelings of a youngster I remember how very desirous I was on the march to Deal to impress the minds of the natives with a suitable notion of the magnitude of my importance by carrying a donkey-load of pistols in my belt and screwing my naturally placid countenance up to a pitch of ferocity beyond what it was calculated to bear.