THE MILITARY ADVENTURES
OF JOHNNY NEWCOME

‘He jests at Scars, who never felt a Wound’
Shakespeare

Starting to join his Regiment.

THE
MILITARY ADVENTURES
OF JOHNNY NEWCOME

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS CAMPAIGN
ON THE PENINSULA AND IN PALL MALL
AND NOTES

BY AN OFFICER

WITH FIFTEEN COLOURED SKETCHES
BY T. ROWLANDSON

A NEW EDITION

METHUEN AND CO.
LONDON
1904

NOTE

This Issue is founded on the original Edition printedfor Patrick Martin in the year 1816.

DEDICATION
TO THE SUBALTERNS OF THE BRITISH ARMY

Gentlemen,

I shall, I trust, be acquitted of any servile view, when, in dedicatingthis humble Essay to the Subalterns of the British Army, I adopt theonly means in my power of shewing how much I honour and admire them.

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
With the greatest respect,
Your most obedient Servant,
The Author.

CONTENTS

LIST OF THE PLATES