EBOOK Young Buglers

I remember that, as a boy, I regarded any attempt to mix instruction   with amusement as being as objectionable a practice as the   administration of powder in jam; but I think that this feeling arose   from the fact that in those days books contained a very small share   of amusement and a very large share of instruction. I have endeavored   to avoid this, and I hope that the accounts of battles and sieges,   illustrated as they are by maps, will be found as interesting   as the lighter parts of the story. As in my tale, "e;The Young   Franc-Tireurs,"e; I gave the outline of the Franco-German war, so   I have now endeavored to give the salient features of the great   Peninsular struggle. The military facts, with the names of generals   and regiments, the dates and places, are all strictly accurate, and   any one who has read with care the story of "e;The Young Buglers"e; could   pass an examination as to the leading events of the Peninsular war