PREFACE.
DATES OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR HARRY SMITH'S COMMISSIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
BOOKS USEFUL FOR REFERENCE IN CONNEXION WITH SIR HARRY SMITH'S LIFE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. MONTE VIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES. 1806-7.
CHAPTER II. WITH SIR JOHN MOORE BATTLE OF CORUnA. 1808-9.
CHAPTER III. BACK TO THE PENINSULA UNDER SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 1809.
CHAPTER IV. CAMPAIGN OF 1810 THE 1ST GERMAN HUSSARS.
CHAPTER V. CAMPAIGN OF 1810 BATTLE OF THE COA.
CHAPTER VI. CAMPAIGN OF 1811.
CHAPTER VII. CAMPAIGN OF 1812: STORMING OF CIUDAD RODRIGO.
CHAPTER VIII. CAMPAIGN OF 1812: THE STORMING OF BADAJOS HARRY SMITH'S MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER IX. CAMPAIGN OF 1812: BATTLE OF SALAMANCA OCCUPATION OF MADRID RETREAT TO SALAMANCA.
CHAPTER X. CAMPAIGN OF 1812: RETREAT TO THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS WINTER OF 1812-13.
CHAPTER XI. CAMPAIGN OF 1813: BATTLE OF VITTORIA.
CHAPTER XII. CAMPAIGN OF 1813: ADVANCE TO VERA.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV. CAMPAIGN OF 1813: COLONEL COLBORNE SECOND COMBAT OF VERA.
CHAPTER XV. CAMPAIGN OF 1813: BATTLE OF THE NIVELLE.
CHAPTER XVI. COMBAT OF THE 10TH DECEMBER HARRY SMITH'S DREAM AND THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER.
CHAPTER XVII. CAMPAIGN OF 1814: BATTLE OF ORTHEZ ANECDOTE OF JUANA SMITH.
CHAPTER XVIII. CAMPAIGN OF 1814: AT GEE, NEAR AIRE BATTLE OF
CHAPTER XIX. HARRY SMITH PARTS FROM HIS WIFE BEFORE STARTING FOR THE WAR IN AMERICA.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV. JUANA'S STORY. [75]
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CHAPTER XL.
CHAPTER XLI.
CHAPTER XLII.
CHAPTER XLIII.
CHAPTER XLIV.
CHAPTER XLV.
CHAPTER XLVI. ( Supplementary. ) HONOURS AND REWARDS, AND KNITTING OF OLD FRIENDSHIPS.
CHAPTER XLVII.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
CHAPTER XLIX.
CHAPTER L. ( Supplementary. ) AGAIN IN ENGLAND LAST YEARS, 1852-1860.
APPENDIX I. Diary of the Expedition to Monte Video, etc. 1806-7.
APPENDIX II. Some Family Letters preserved by Harry Smith with Particular Care.
APPENDIX III. Memorandum addressed to Sir B. D'Urban on the
APPENDIX IV. Extracts from Harry Smith's Letters to his Wife during the Kafir War, 1835.
APPENDIX V. Address of Colonel Smith to the Caffer Chiefs, 7th January, 1836.
APPENDIX VI. Extracts from Sir Harry Smith's Letters from India, to his Sister, Mrs Sargant.
APPENDIX VII. Sir Harry Smith's Recall from the Cape.
APPENDIX VIII. Sir Harry Smith's Paternal and Maternal Ancestry.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
Transcriber's Note
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
Sir Harry Smith
BARONET OF ALIWAL ON THE SUTLEJ
G.C.B.
EDITED
WITH THE ADDITION OF SOME SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS
By G. C. MOORE SMITH, M.A.
WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1903
