JOURNAL OF JAMES HALELate Sergeant in the Ninth Regiment of Foot (1803-1814)

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Published in association with The National Army Museum London, this is an NCO's view of the Napoleonic Wars. Sgt Hale took part in the battles of Corunna, Walcheren, Almeida, Badajoz, Ciudad Roderigo and Vitoria before he was badly wounded and became a Chelsea pensioner.

The author of this telling NCO's memoir of the Napoleonic Wars, James Hale, enlisted in the Royal North Gloucestershire Regiment of Militia in 1803. Tiring of garrison life after four years, he signed up in the Ninth Regiment of Foot for 7 years. In 1808, the regiment sailed for Portugal, only to take part in the retreat to Corunna - an experience which Hale vividly describes. He returned to England, to participate in the even more disastrous Walcheren Expedition of 1809. In 1810, Hale was back in Portugal, this time serving in the lines of Torres Vedras and the battles of Almeida, Ciudad Roderigo, Badajoz and Vitoria. In 1813 he was severely wounded, shipped back to England and became a pensioner at the Chelsea Hospital. His memoir, published in 1826, gives an incomparable soldier's picture of the fighting in which he was involved.

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Product Code:	23549
Author:	Sergeant James Hale
ISBN:	9781845747442
Format:	2009 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1826). SB. 131 pp Published Price £12.50
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