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CHAPTER I.

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First Trip to Sea—Shipmates—Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart, K.B. 1

CHAPTER II.

Channel Cruising—Boat Expeditions—Anecdote of a Gallant Mid—Ditto of Two Dandy Guardsmen—Expedition to Ferrol—Sir James Pulteney, Sir Edward Pellew and the Donkey—The Unlucky Cruise 7

CHAPTER III.

Cruise off Cadiz—Proceed up the Mediterranean to Egypt after a French Squadron under Rear-Admiral Ganteaume, 1801 16

CHAPTER IV.

From the Peace of Amiens (1802) until the Commencement of the Second Gallic War—Gambling 26

CHAPTER V.

From the Commencement of Second Gallic War until the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805; with Anecdotes 30

CHAPTER VI.

The Battle of Trafalgar, and Extracts from the Log of His Majesty’s Ship Neptune, on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd October, 1805 43

CHAPTER VII.

Joined the Melpomene—Sent up the Mediterranean—Tremendous Weather, with Thunder, Lightning, and Water-spouts—Ship loses her Rudder and Main-topmast—Proceed to Malta 57

CHAPTER VIII.

Siege of Gaeta by the French—Boat Affairs—My Capture—Leghorn 62

CHAPTER IX.

Malta—Dreadful Accident by the Explosion of a Magazine in the Town, on the Bermola side—Nearly get into a Scrape about Breaking Quarantine—Kind Answer of the gallant Admiral Sir Sidney Smith to the Complaint—Rejoin the Melpomene—Mutiny in Fribourg’s Regiment—Cruise in the Adriatic 73

CHAPTER X.

North American Station, from 1808 to 1811—Bermuda—Anecdote—Death of Captain Conn 87

CHAPTER XI.

Lisbon—Trip to the Army of Lord Wellington—Montemor Novo, O’Rodondo, Villa Vicosa, Elvas, Fort le Lippe 101

CHAPTER XII.

Lisbon, Cintra, Mafra, etc., 1811, 1812—Second Trip to the Army—Taking of Badajoz 113

CHAPTER XIII.

Cadiz, Minorca, Majorca, Alicant, Carthagena, Algiers, Oran, Altea Bay—Drive a French Privateer on Shore near Denia 124

CHAPTER XIV.

Siege of the Col de Balaguer—A Reconnoitering Party—Raising of the Siege of Tarragona—Lieutenant-General Sir John and Lady Murray—Rear-Admiral Benjamin Hallowell—Viscount and Viscountess Mahon—Palermo, Veniros; Upset in a Boat—Valencia—Holland 136

CHAPTER XV.

1814—Sent to Bermuda—Operations in the Chesapeake—The River Patuxent—Expedition to Washington—Town of Rappahannock—River Rappahannock—Commodore Robert Barrie, etc. 150

CHAPTER XVI.

Operations in South Carolina—Capture of Cumberland Island and the Fort of Point-À-Petre—An Affair with the American Riflemen in the Woods—An Abattis—Anecdotes of the 2nd West India Regiment—A Rattlesnake—Capture of the Town of St. Mary’s—Destruction of the Forts and Barracks—Nassau, New Providence—Compliment to the Royal Marines—Return Home 173

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