Successive Lords High Commissioners were Blakeney’s friends, and found him work to do. Under Lord Nugent he was Inspector of Police in Corfu; under Sir Howard Douglas he was Inspector of Health in the Island of Zante; and later, under Lord Seaton, he became Resident of the Island of Paxo. This office he held for twenty-one years, until he died in 1858 in his seventieth year. So there came to him, when he was still young, a life of peace passed in a land of dreams. But the thoughts of the old soldier turned often to the more misty island of his birth, and to that famous peninsula made sacred to his memory by the blood of gallant comrades. His heart grew warm again as he summoned from the past the battles, sieges, fortunes of his adventurous boyhood, the happy days of youth, of friendship and of war. JULIAN STURGIS. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE I JOIN THE ARMY AND MAKE ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE PERILS OF THE SEA 1 CHAPTER II. I SERVE IN A DANISH CAMPAIGN WITH SMALL GLORY 7 CHAPTER III. WE LAND IN THE PENINSULA 14 CHAPTER IV. WITH THE ADVANCE OF SIR JOHN MOORE 22 CHAPTER V. WE RETREAT WITH SIR JOHN MOORE 31 CHAPTER VI. WITH THE REARGUARD OF THE RETREATING ARMY 40 CHAPTER VII. THE RETREAT CONTINUED 52 CHAPTER VIII. THE RETREAT CONTINUED 66 CHAPTER IX. THE RETREAT CONTINUED 82 CHAPTER X. THE RETREAT CONTINUED 94 CHAPTER XI. AT THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA 108 CHAPTER XII. WE AFFECT THE SENTIMENTAL BRITISH PUBLIC, AND GAIN BUT LITTLE GLORY IN HOLLAND 124 CHAPTER XIII. WE RETURN TO THE PENINSULA 133 CHAPTER XIV. A LITTLE CAMPAIGN FROM TARIFA 152 CHAPTER XV. WE ENTERTAIN RIGHT ROYALLY AT TARIFA 167 CHAPTER XVI. FROM TARIFA TO BAROSSA 177 CHAPTER XVII. IN THE BATTLE OF BAROSSA 189 CHAPTER XVIII. WE RETURN TO TARIFA AND THENCE TO LISBON 201 CHAPTER XIX. WE AGAIN ADVANCE INTO SPAIN 213 CHAPTER XX. IN THE BATTLE OF ARROYO MOLINOS 224 CHAPTER XXI. I AM MADE BEAR-LEADER 233 CHAPTER XXII. I CONTINUE TO PLAY THE GAOLER 244