sentences:  At the age of fourteen he entered the army as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards, and shortly after accompanied the regiment to Bremen.In 1807, the battalion to which he belonged sailed for Copenhagen, and after the capture of that city it returned to England.In 1809, the Coldstream Guards embarked for the Iberian Peninsula, and was present in all the great battles there against the Napoleonic forces, beginning with Talavera and ending with Toulouse.