[Hamilton, Anthony]. Hamilton's Campaign with Moore and Wellington during The Peninsular War; Original and Compiled. Troy, N. Y.: Published for the Author, Press of Prescott & Wilson, 1847. First Edition. [10887]
Black cloth, blind stamped, gilt titles to spine, some light smudging and edge-wear, good joints, tight. 163 generally clean pages, old dampstain at the top of the last several leaves. Good. Hardcover.
Anthony Hamilton b, 1779 in Co. Donegall, Ireland. He served as a sergeant in the 43rd Regiment of Foot and provides vivid eye-witness accounts of almost all of the major battles in which the British fought during the Peninsular War and 1815 campaigns under Wellington. The last several pages relate that after the war he was promised a bounty of land in Canada, traveled to Montreal, but never received his reward. He took to northern New York state, became a peddler, was a farm hand in Berkshire, Vermont, and finally settled near Utica, New York. He became a Christian, gave up drink, and made something of himself as a Temperance lecturer.
