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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Diaries, memoirs, and letters by officers of the Napoleonic era abound, but there are few reminiscences by common foot soldiers. This extraordinarily vivid and entirely authentic report by British rifleman Benjamin Harris offers rare glimpses of life among the enlisted men. Harris's personal anecdotes, brimming with ready wit and memorable descriptions, tell of military life from the bottom up: the soldiers' camaraderie amid physical hardships and inadequate supplies and equipment, their endemic drunkenness and frequent hunger, the terrible punishments meted out for even small infractions, and the narrow margin between death and survival. In the mid-1830s, Harris was working as a London cobb...
A Dorset Rifleman
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A Dorset Rifleman
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Rare account of army life by common British foot soldier in early 1800s tells of camaraderie among infantrymen, physical hardships, endemic drunkenness, frequent hunger, and the narrow margin between death and survival.
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
One of the most popular military books of all time receives a well-deserved new edition for readers young and old. The hero is an ordinary shepherd, a teenager from a small village, who joined the British army in 1802 and fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Rifleman Harris was a natural storyteller with a remarkable tale, and his harrowing escapes from capture and death are all told in this unique view of a soldier' s life.
The Protestant Tutor
The first of these works was intended to teach spelling and reading while pointing out the "evils" of Catholicism; the second was a combination religious instructor and reader used by children of early New England.
Turbulent Times
Compelling discussion of transformations within British Jewry in recent times.
English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660-1700, vol 2
The multi-faceted nature of dissenting verse is demonstrated, from the sonnets of the Quaker Martin Mason to the self-consciously 'witty' acrostic used to commemorate the Fifth Monarchist Vavasor Powell's death, to the Quaker schismatic John Perrot's 'A sea of the seed's sufferings'.
