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Captain Mayne Reid The Rifle Rangers

Adventures In South Mexico

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The Rifle Rangers or Adventures in South Mexico (1850) is a novel by Captain Mayne Reid, set in Vera Cruz, Mexico during the Mexican War (1846–48) The novel depicts the plight of American soldiers stationed in Mexico during the war and their effect on the native population. It follows the life of protagonist Captain Jack Haller as he helms the newly formed American battalion, dubbed the "Rifle Rangers". Accompanying Haller is a small band of fellow soldiers whom he leads on several missions through the Tierra Caliente portion of Mexico. The Rifle Rangers was Reid's first novel and is reflective of the author's wartime duty as a lieutenant in the First New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he traveled to the parts of Mexico so vividly described in the novel. [more]

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F.S. Brereton With Rifle and Bayonet

A Story of the Boer War

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of With Rifle and Bayonet, by F.S. Brereton This eBook is for the use of [more]

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. . Short History of the London Rifle Brigade

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The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army. Formed in January [more]

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Captain Mayne Reid The Rifle Rangers

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Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote [more]

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F.S. Brereton With Rifle and Bayonet

A Story of the Boer War

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Frederick Sadleir Brereton (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) was a decorated soldier and an author of [more]

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F.S. Brereton With Rifle and Bayonet

A Story of the Boer War

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The last few rays of a cold September sunset were streaming through the High Street of a large and populous village called Redford, in the county of Surrey, lighting up the pretty red-brick cottages and casting a deep shadow beyond the quaint and tumble-down old porch which led to the church. A few mellow shafts had slipped by it, and, struggling through the iron bars of a massive gate, travelled up a long gravel drive and cast a ruddy glow on the windows of a fine country mansion. [more]

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F.S. Brereton With Rifle and Bayonet

A Story of the Boer War

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Frederick Sadleir Brereton (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) was a decorated soldier and an author of [more]

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Captain J. Kincaid Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula,

France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815

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Adventures in the Rifle Brigade is probably the best-known and most popular of the many memoirs written by the men who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and Waterloo Campaign. The author, John Kincaid (1787–1862), served as an officer in what was then the 95th Foot, the most famous of Wellington's regiments, which was 'first in the field and last out'. Kincaid fought in most of the great campaigns in the Iberian peninsula between 1809 and 1814 and at Waterloo in 1815. Originally published in 1830, this book is history at its best: informative, enlightening and perceptive, hard fact mixed with humour, a vivid description of life on campaign with one of the most famous regiments in the British army. It is, furthermore, highly readable and engaging: a contemporary review noted that Kincaid's book 'has one fault, the rarest fault in books, it is too short'. [more]

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