Produced by KD Weeks, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Full page images have been moved slightly to the nearest paragraph break. They were not included in the pagination of the original. Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraph in which they are referenced. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. ADVENTURES WITH THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS [Illustration] ADVENTURES WITH THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS 1809–1814 BY WILLIAM GRATTAN, ESQ. LATE LIEUTENANT CONNAUGHT RANGERS EDITED BY CHARLES OMAN FELLOW OF ALL SOULS' COLLEGE AND DEPUTY PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED WITH A PREFACE, NOTES, AND MAPS LONDON EDWARD ARNOLD 1902 _All rights reserved_ PREFACE While engaged during the last ten years in the task of mastering the original authorities of the history of the Napoleonic wars, I have had to peruse many scores of diaries, autobiographies, and reminiscences of the British military and naval officers who were engaged in the great struggle. They vary, of course, in interest and importance, in literary value, and in the power of vivid presentation of events. But they have this in common, that they are almost all very difficult to procure. Very few of them have been reprinted; indeed, I believe that the books of Lord Dundonald, Sir John Kincaid, Gleig, John Shipp, and Colonel Mercer are wellnigh the only ones which have passed through a second edition. Yet there are many others which contain matter of the highest interest, not only for the historical student but for every intelligent reader. From these I have made a selection of ten or a dozen which seem to me well worth republishing.