Excerpt from The Light Dragoon Well, then, I enlisted in London; and, marching to Maidstone, underwent the customary. Examinations after. Which, I was attested before a magistrate, and had my bounty paid with strict exactitude. Unfortunately for me, however, the society into which I was thrown bore no resemblance at all to a well-re ulated regiment. The barracks were filled with small etachments from a countless variety of corps, and the sergeants and cor porals, on whom the internal discipline both of regiments and depots ...
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Excerpt from The Light Dragoon Well, then, I enlisted in London; and, marching to Maidstone, underwent the customary. Examinations after. Which, I was attested before a magistrate, and had my bounty paid with strict exactitude. Unfortunately for me, however, the society into which I was thrown bore no resemblance at all to a well-re ulated regiment. The barracks were filled with small etachments from a countless variety of corps, and the sergeants and cor porals, on whom the internal discipline both of regiments and depots mainly depends, seem to me, at this distance of time, to have been selected from the very scum of the earth. Like a band of h ies, they pounced upon us recruits, and never let us oose from their talons till they had thoroughly pigeoned us. We were invited to their, rooms of an evemng, - introduced to their wives, who made much of us, raised, .favoured, screened, and cajoled, till our funds egan to run low, and then they would have nothing more to say to us. Under these circumstances, we were sufiiciently well pleased when the order came to join the regiment at Clonmel a and, being put in charge of one Corporal Gorman, we began our journe profoundly ignorant both of the route we were to ollow, and the extent of funds which would be allowed us during the continuance of the march. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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