Adventures in the Rifle Brigade

ISBN-10: 1727812921
ISBN-13: 9781727812923
Series: Adventures in the Rifle Brigade
Pages: 146
Language: English
Published: 2018-10-15
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: J. Kincaid

Description

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by Captain J. Kincaid Excerpt p, and to send us off for Figuera, next day, with a foul wind. Sailing at the rate of one mile in two hours, we reached Figuera's Bay at the end of eight days, and were welcomed by about a hundred hideous looking Portuguese women, whose joy was so excessive that they waded up to their arm-pits through a heavy surf, and insisted on carrying us on shore on their backs! I never clearly ascertained whether they had been actuated by the purity of love or gold.