With the Royal Engineers in the Low Countries
Sperling, John / Porter, Whitworth / Connolly, T W. J.
The engineers, sappers and miners during the closing battles of the Napoleonic Wars
The initial part of this book contains letters written to his father, by a British officer of the Royal Engineers serving in the army towards the end of the conflict with Napoleonic France. In fact, the first letter, written aboard his transport ship at anchor, bound for continental Europe is dated in December of 1813. The conclusion of that war was only thre...
