IN THE BRITISH LEGION.

BY AN OFFICER OF THE NINTH REGIMENT.

LONDON:

JOHN MACRONE, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE.

MDCCCXXXVI.

TOTHEY

THOMAS CURSON HANSARD, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

PREFACE.

It was the author's habit during his absence in Spain, to write home accounts every week or fortnight of anything new and striking that fell under his observation in the course of his wanderings. On his return to England, the idea occurred to him of re-writing these notes, so that without omitting any of the first impressions as rapidly delineated in the intervals of repose from duty, they should be worked up into a continuous narrative, not so much of the events of the campaign as of his personal adventures during that period. It would have been useless for him to attempt to give a military history of the proceedings of the British Legion, and to confine himself solely to the details of manœuvres and actions,