Commanding Wellington's Horse Artillery: Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B. Commanding the Royal Horse Artillery in the Peninsular War & Waterloo Campaigns

The galloping guns in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign

Based on the experiences of Wellington's commander of horse artillery, Augustus Simon Frazer, these highly informative letters were written while he was on campaign against Napoleon's forces during the Peninsular War in Spain and the Waterloo Campaign in 1815. Born the son of an officer of engineers in Dunkirk in 1776, Frazer was gazetted as a second lieutenant into the Royal Artillery in 1793. By early 1794 he was campaignin...