The Campaigns of the Coldstream Guards, 1793-1815: the Revolutionary War, Peninsular War and Waterloo Described by an Eyewitness Officer

Second to none--the campaigns of the Coldstream Guards

Daniel Mackinnon, the author of this book, was an officer of the Coldstream Guards. In 1833 he published a history of his regiment from its creation and through the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France. This Leonaur book, a stand-alone account derived from Mackinnon's larger work focuses on his personal experiences. The regiment served in the disastrous campaign in the Low Countries under the Duke of York and saw hard fightin...