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Title: The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence
A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns

Author: William Lawrence

Editor: George Nugent Bankes

Release Date: June 28, 2009 [EBook #29263]

Language: English

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

OF

SERGEANT WILLIAM LAWRENCE,

_A HERO OF THE PENINSULAR AND WATERLOO CAMPAIGNS_;

EDITED BY

GEORGE NUGENT BANKES,

AUTHOR OF "A DAY OF MY LIFE AT ETON," ETC., ETC.

London
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
1886

[_All rights reserved_]

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

_Square 16mo, cloth extra, 2s. 6d. each._

A DAY OF MY LIFE AT ETON.

ABOUT SOME FELLOWS; or, Odds and Ends from My Note-book.

CAMBRIDGE TRIFLES; or, Splutterings from an Undergraduate's Pen.

A CAMBRIDGE STAIRCASE.

_Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s._

WRITTEN TO ORDER: being some Account of the Journeyings of an
Irresponsible Egotist, and of How he enjoyed himself thereon.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW & CO., 188, FLEET STREET, E.C.

PREFACE.

Sergeant William Lawrence died at Studland in Dorsetshire in the year
1867, bequeathing the manuscript of the accompanying autobiography to
the family one of whose members now submits it to the notice of the
public. Circumstances, which perhaps may be too often interpreted as
really meaning an unfortunate tendency to procrastination, have
hitherto prevented it being put into shape with a view to publication:
one thing after another has intervened, and the work has been passed
on from hand to hand, until after these long years a final effort has
been made, and the self-imposed task completed.

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