History of the First Battalion Coldstream Guards During the Eastern Campaign

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Excerpt from History of the First Battalion Coldstream Guards During the Eastern Campaign: From February, 1854 to June 1856 In compliance with the request of the Director General, and with the sanction of the officer com manding the Regiment, Mr. Wyatt at once under took to collect from different available sources the necessary details for the purpose of compiling the History of the Battalion, of which he had been the senior Medical Officer, during nearly the whole period of active service in the Crimea: and having kept a private daily journal cf events connected with his department, he did not labour under the same difficulty as would have occurred, had such a means of reference not been at hand still as it was necessary to be exceedingly exact in every statement recorded, he availed himself of the official records so promptly placed at his disposal by the Commanding Officer of the Regiment, to whom his best acknow ledgments are tendered. 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.