was seen as promoted to an ensigncy in his old regiment; and though this announcement came too late for him to know it, it was a great consolation to his poor afflicted widow, and it was the means of reconciling her father to the choice she had made, and her return once more to her home was made a scene of great rejoicing; but nothing more of her was ever heard by the regiment. * * * * * The war in the Peninsula was now ended, after having continued for nearly six years with various changes; and gloriously, in truth, was it ended by the British General and his unconquerable army. “Thus the war terminated, and with it all remembrance of the veterans' services.” And now, reader, I am about to take leave of you, for the present at least. In these “Adventures” I have told you many circumstances you never before heard of, and I hope I have not fatigued you, or trespassed too long on your patience. I have, without being, I trust, too tedious, told you of the wrongs my old corps has suffered. I have, without presuming to write a History of the Peninsular War, told you something of the services performed by the Peninsular army; and I have drawn your attention to the scandalous manner in which the never-to-be-forgotten services of that wonderful army were treated by the Government and by the Duke of Wellington. I leave the continuation of the _Adventures of the Connaught Rangers_ dependent on the favour of which you may think the pages I have now presented to you deserving. THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note Hyphenations occurring on line breaks are resolved by following the preponderant occurrence of the word elsewhere in the text. Several inconsistencies in punctuation in the front matter were resolved without notice here. The reference in the sole error corrected are to the page and line in the original. 288.32 we were beginning [t]o forget Restored. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Adventures With the Connaught Rangers 1809-1814, by William Grattan