This bookpresents a very personal account by the author of his campaigning experiences on the march from Lisbon to Boulogne during the Peninsular War against Napoleonic France. Broughton was a soldier of the 2nd Life Guards, later becoming its regimental surgeon, but his aim was to record not only campaign details but anything he found of interest during his travels. The letters contain fascinating details not often found in memoirs concerning this campaign, including descriptions of the local diet and portrayals of contemporary society, festivals, and customs, as well as recording the particulars of the military actions in which the author was engaged. From the balls and dinner-parties in Lisbonvia the discomforts of campaign to the splendours of Paris, this is an engaging and elegant narrative of atumultuous period in European history."