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Excerpt from The Private Journal of F. S. Larpent, Esq., Vol. 3 of 3: Judge Advocate General of the British Forces in the Peninsula; Attached to the Head-Quarters of Lord Wellington During the Peninsular War, From 1812 to Its Close Head-quarters are come home delighted with the country on the Gaves and with their reception. The people in many instances come in numbers to meet our troops instead of offering resistance. The prisoners also many of them say they are ready to serve son Altesse Royale, but this is rather too soon to begin, it is thought, as it may be only to escape and return to their old army. One young man, who was of the country, ran into his father's house as they were marching by, and all the family were found around him. He was separated and marched off; but the story has been told at head-quarters, and General Pakenham has sent the man back (who was on his way to Passages), and means to send him home to his friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.