[Illustration: Yours faithfully, Thomas Faughnan.] STIRRING INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A BRITISH SOLDIER. An Autobiography. BY THOMAS FAUGHNAN, _Late Colour-Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, 6th Royal Regiment_. "Faithful unto Death." THIRD EDITION. TORONTO: HUNTER, ROSE AND COMPANY. 1881. Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, by THOMAS FAUGHNAN, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture. PRINTED AND BOUND BY HUNTER, ROSE & CO., TORONTO. TO HIS EXCELLENCY The Right Honourable the Marquis of Lorne, K.T., G.C.M.G., GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, THIS STORY Of a British Soldier's Life IS, BY SPECIAL PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, THOMAS FAUGHNAN. PREFACE. In laying the history of my life and travels before the public, I deem it right to state that I am past the middle age; this I feel compelled to mention, because it is my opinion that no man should write a history of himself until he has set foot upon the border land where the past and the future begin to blend. When the past has receded so far that he can behold it as in a picture, and his share in it as the history of a soldier who has fought for his Queen and country, and had many narrow escapes of death. But, thank God, I have been spared thus far to confess my faults, and my good deeds look miserably poor in my own eyes; indeed, I would no more claim a reward for them than expect a captain's commission.