Excerpt from The Adventures of a Soldier, or Memoirs of Edward Costello, K. S. F : Formerly a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Rifle Brigade, and Late Captain in the British Legion, Comprising Narratives of the Campaigns in the Peninsular Under the Duke of Wellington, and the Recent Civil Wars in Spain
In the late expedition under Sir De Lacy Evans, the objects of those who undertook to serve the regnant Queen of Spain, were as varied as their professions and characters. Many went to fight; amongst these, perhaps, my own countrymen rather preponderated. Numbers went also to see the world, as they termed it; and received in its organised bands the ugliest of its knocks; and many went to acquire what they had lost or could not gain in their own country - which if not fame and respectability, they hoped would be something approaching very close to the fashionable idea of one or both.
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