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A bookstore in Tasmania, Australia, has unearthed an extremely rare journal from the Napoleonic wars that had been hidden in storage for decades.
The journal was written by John Squire, a British Army officer who served with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars.
A lieutenant colonel in the Royal Engineers, Squire was a well-known diarist who documented the British Army’s campaigns against Napoleon. Commissioned as a Royal Engineers officer in 1797, Squire died of fever in 1812 during the Peninsular War.
The volume discovered covers the period from May 12 to July 22, 1811, detailing the siege of Badajoz in Spain.
Read More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36219991
The journal was written by John Squire, a British Army officer who served with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars.
A lieutenant colonel in the Royal Engineers, Squire was a well-known diarist who documented the British Army’s campaigns against Napoleon. Commissioned as a Royal Engineers officer in 1797, Squire died of fever in 1812 during the Peninsular War.
The volume discovered covers the period from May 12 to July 22, 1811, detailing the siege of Badajoz in Spain.
Read More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36219991
