Boys of the Light Brigade
A Story of
Spain and the Peninsular War
BY
HERBERT STRANG
AUTHOR OF "TOM BURNABY"
With a Preface by Colonel WILLOUGHBY VERNER
late Rifle Brigade
Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I.
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
1905
DEDICATED
BY PERMISSION
TO
FIELD-MARSHAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND STRATHEARN
K.G., K.T., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E, G.C.V.O.,
COLONEL-IN-CHIEF
AND TO THE OFFICERS OF
THE RIFLE BRIGADE
(Formerly 95th Rifles)
Preface
Mr. Herbert Strang has asked me to write a fewwords explanatory of the title he has chosen for thisbook.
"The Light Brigade" was the name given to the firstBritish Brigade of Light Infantry, consisting of the 43rdLight Infantry, 52nd Light Infantry, and the 95th Rifles,which were trained together as a war-brigade at ShorncliffeCamp in the years 1803-1805, just a century ago,by General Sir John Moore, the Hero of Corunna.
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