1899 A British Rifle Man: The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Being the journals and selected correspondence of Major George Simmons, a British Army officer who served in the Napoleonic Wars and was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo while serving with the 95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles). This collection contains his writings during the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo. For his service in the Peninsular Campaigns Simmons received the Military General Service Medal with eight clasps and the Waterloo Medal. Edited by Colonel William Willoughby Cole Verner, a British soldier, writer, ornithologist, and inventor of a type of compass.