Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie

Excerpt from the book: "Yesterday, for instance, I was up at 5 o'clock, and afteran hour's parade, shivering in the dark, I then went off to another, and got back about 1 o'clock. I was instructing my men in thedifference between English and French distances--_i. E. _, what 600yards looked like in this country for rifle ranges, and where an enemywas likely to hide, etc. In the middle of this the Brigade Majordashed up in despair, as some order of his had gone astray. I waswanted to take ten offi