Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe – Vol. II

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Educated from a young age for the military profession of arms, John Blakiston was sent to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, becoming an Engineer assigned to East India Company army. Thereafter he transferred into the British army in Europe and then into the Portuguese service fighting in the Peninsula.
He wrote his military memoirs in two volumes; each focussing on a period of his service in the military. The second volume concentrates on the Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington, after a raid into Dutch [at the time French] Java, and is considered, even amongst the memoirs of the period, to be a somewhat rare account from an engineer officer - and one that fought in the service of Portugal. Battles such as Vittoria, the Nive and the Nivelle are recounted with an admirable eye for detail.
The full title of the book is — Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe or Memoirs of an Officer who served in the Armies of his Majesty and of the East India Company between the years 1802 and 1814, in which are contained the Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in India and his last in Spain and the South of France.— Vol. II
Author — Captain John Blakiston (???? - ????)
Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in two volumes 1829, London, by H. Colbourn.
Original –198 pages.
Title – Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe
Sub-Title – or Memoirs of an Officer who served in the Armies of his Majesty…Vol. II
Series Name – Twelve Years’ Military Adventure in Three-Quarters of the Globe
Series Number — 2