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English Men of Action

SIR CHARLES NAPIER

[Illustration: Logo]


[Illustration: SIR CHARLES NAPIER.]


SIR CHARLES NAPIER

by

COLONEL SIR WILLIAM F. BUTLER







London
Macmillan and Co.
And New York
1890

All rights reserved




CONTENTS

   CHAPTER I
                                                     PAGE
   THE HOME AT CELBRIDGE--FIRST COMMISSION              1


   CHAPTER II

   EARLY SERVICE--THE PENINSULA                        14


   CHAPTER III

   CORUNNA                                             27


   CHAPTER IV

   THE PENINSULA IN 1810-11--BERMUDA--AMERICA--ROYAL
   MILITARY COLLEGE                                    46


   CHAPTER V

   CEPHALONIA                                          62


   CHAPTER VI

   OUT OF HARNESS                                      75


   CHAPTER VII

   COMMAND OF THE NORTHERN DISTRICT                    86


   CHAPTER VIII

   INDIA--THE WAR IN SCINDE                            98


   CHAPTER IX

   THE BATTLE OF MEANEE                               117


   CHAPTER X

  