The Romance of Military Life

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Excerpt from The Romance of Military Life: Being Souvenirs Connected With Thirty Years' ServiceIn a prefatory note to the extraordinary and eventful narrative, given under the name of Bar court, I have mentioned that I am indebted for the details it contains, to a brother officer with whom I was formerly associated on a particular service. A period of twelve years has elapsed since he imparted to me the incidents it embodies, but in the early part of 1850, I saw in an English newspaper, an extract from a French Official Journal, published by order of the Judicial Tri bunal in one of the Northern Departments (in all probability for the purpose of affording general information upon the subject, to enable any other claimants that might be in existence to come forward), stating, that demands had been made, and inquiries instituted by distant relatives, (or foreigners who declared themselves to be such, )About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.