Adventures of a Soldier Memoir Costello’s Imperial Tale
A veteran sergeant recounts his peninsular wounds and postwar struggle. After loving Augustine in French and English billets, marital troubles lead to exile from Cambray, entangled with authorities, pension fights, and a final act of charity from Colonel Ford in London. The narrative blends war horrors with personal endurance and gratitude amid hardship.
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Berkeley-square
Board of
Chelsea
Cater
Edward Costello
Rifle Brigade
A. FeBate NATO
E. Dundas
Foraging Near Medina Del Polmar Ends with Narrow Escape
In June a small group forsook camp to buy bread from a village across a river. Spaniards attacked, cries of kill the English dogs rose as the desperate foragers defended themselves with stones. Retreating to the riverbank, they were halted by General Sir Lowry Cole who ordered them back, then allowed them to swim across unharmed.
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Medina del Polmar
Commissariat
52Nd
Lowry Cule
Eneral
Sir Lowry
Love and Gallantry in the Spanish Front
A shoemaker named Manley is shot in the head as a Spanish woman clings to him during battle. Blanco the Spaniard protects her, firing on the enemy while cursing with typical fervor. Sergeant Watts is fatally wounded while asking if he is dead, and Conner, now a Chelsea tailor, survives in good circumstances.
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Douay
Ber- Loude
Augustine
Julie
Angustine
Burloun
Monvres
Leucule
Jol Ve Augustine
Cambray
England
Badajos
Badajes
Lisbon
Saint Les Marquion
Mouvres
Annistine
Camtray
Wien
John Lambert
Barnaird
Andrew Barnard
Duke of Wellington
Lamberton
Edouard
Engand
Uris
Bits
Auveche
Ime
Mouvis
Spain
Stearns
Shorncliff
Chelsea
London
Shori-chi
Sydnee
Stanly Pee
Andrew Iy
Dave Datnese
Chetven
Imales
David Havin
Elsea
Barthen
Manley
Mauley
Blanco
Vittoria
Blanca
Watts
Conner
Fortune of War and a London reconciliation tale
A sergeant from the Peninsular campaign returns to England and discovers his wife Mary with a carpenter and two children. After identifying the family, he negotiates a playful settlement for custody with the sixpence arrangement, then drinks to seal the deal. The narrative shifts to a harsh night at a church and a quip on military pay, followed by a note on Peter Parley’s Annual praised for its educational tales for children.
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England
London
Corunna
Spain
Portsmouth
Spithead
High Street
Gathes
Mary S
Mary S——n
Peter Partey
Simpkin, Afarshall, and Co
Peter Parley
Railways safety and engine details across crossings 1841
The Board of Trade report requests railway directors provide returns on level crossing protections gates keepers wages and duties engine counts construction and safety features engine makers preferred designs and any perceived dangers. plus notes on Brighton line inspection by Professor Barlow, and a curious Irish ordnance survey prodigy. Fire outbreak at Pierce Ironmonger shop in Jermyn Street prompts multi-station response and heavy damage estimates.
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Railways Department
Board of Trade
Whitehall
North Union
Bristol and
Exeter
Committee of Privy Council Fur Trade
Victoria
G. R. Porten
London and Brighton
Committee of Privy Council For Trade
S. Larne
Catcu
Ordnance Survey of Ireland
Alexander Gwin
Derry
Jornyn-Street
Piccadilly
Pierce
Jermyn-street
Haymarket
Baker
St. James’s Parish
Carter
Prauie
King-street
Charidos-street
England
Watling-street “&¢. &c
Pierdé
Allianc
Case of Bernard Cavanagh fasting trial second ordeal
A correspondent recounts a renewed test of Bernard Cavanagh’s fasting power in 1841. He was sealed in a windowed second floor room with sealed doors and chimney, stripped and searched for hidden food, then confined with a fresh clothes change. After ten days the room was opened. he appeared languid but recovered quickly, supporting claims of extraordinary abstinence and prompting calls for further investigation by physiologists.
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Bernard Cavanagh
Tne
Cavanagh
Lamb's Conduit Street
Holburn
Lamb
Edward Blundell
E.S. Blundell
J.T. Reeve
Peter Kenney
J. Spencer
J. Eyles
Blundell
St. George’s Hospital
Extraordinary Matrimony Scam At London Bride Deed Deception
An elderly shoemaker Pardoe, a widower, recounts being lured into a staged marriage with a London widow to gain £40 plus future aid. The ceremony included a deed of separation signed before a registrar, after which the bride vanished from contact. Pardoe, now aged over seventy, was left destitute and admitted to St Giles workhouse following his losses.
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Pardoe
St. Giles’s
Pottar’s Bar
Enfield
London
Pardow
Epa
St. Giles
Great Western Railway
Josephine
Rye
Coast Guard
Coast. Guard
Coast.guard
William James
George Loovra
William Neville
Cherbourg
Whitby
Scarborough
George
Hall
Hull
Wm. Warf
Warf
Newcastle
Parochial Rates Case Refines Street Entrance Rule
The ruling holds that a shop with an open daytime street doorway and inner access through a passage can still count as entry to the street for franchise purposes. Hobbs’s case is contrasted with Tuatcurrs Cast-Waiter’s, noting no direct shop exit to the street is required. The judge treats the lobby passage as a street continuation for enfranchisement.
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Woodstock Committee
Prior
ST. George
Waiter
Hobbs
Thatcher
White
Watmore's Cast Fractured Over Lodgers and Vote Rights
A revising barrister ruled against Watmore's claim to be registered as an occupier of a dwelling in Poland Street. The case debated whether separate lodgings in a building count as distinct dwellings for Reform Bill franchise purposes. The barrister refused the claim to avoid admitting a new voter class.
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Westminster
T. J. Arnold
ST. James
CnowrHeEr
Chaim
Score
Trott
Horns
Embert
Crars
Crowther
Cucer
Jackson
Rex
Henley-on-Thames
A'Beckett
Symmsox
A’beckett
A.beckett
Walford
A.beckett the Younger
Sympson
A’becket
Evans
Christ
Kern
ST. Anne's
Watmore
Poland Street
Bunt
Mr. Watmore
Reckless Profligacy of Birmingham Bankrupt Dauncey
An 1841 Warwick assize case details William Dalton Dauncey, a 22 year old ironmaster, bankrupt after amassing £23,413 debts with only £1,668 assets. He faced criminal and debtor actions, including a lengthy, revealing examination of £25,845 in outlays such as £1,000 travel and gambling losses. His conduct prompted creditors to push for accountability as he awaits further proceedings.
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Stephens
Cuxhaven
Warwick Spring
Justice Patteson
Dauncey
Warwick
Birmingham
Waterloo Rooms
Messrs
Bartleet
R. W. Gem
A. Ryland
Hodgson
Colmore
Dunkirk
Wurtzen
Prussia
Daungey
Suppin
Lonp Coventry
Higgs
King and Prince of Wales
Bricks
Hammerton
Lord Coventry
Gloucester
Worcester
Boutacre
Old George Tavern
Deptford
Carttar
Thomas Sweeting
Steam Navigation Company
Flarlequin
Boulogne
London
Royal Dockyard
Woolwich
Grissell
Peto
Br. ‘Allen
Woolwich Dockyard
Treasury
Admiralty
The
Trafalgar Square
Siousx Herbert
Lambeth
Texas
Chicago
Republic of Texas
Jim Donogan
Jeffers
Brother Bill
Bill
Jeffer
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Henry Colburn
Costello
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Woodford
Patriotic Fund
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Norfolk
Waterloo
Peninsula
Dover
Calais
St. Omes
Mason
Roth
Canterbury
Ned
Jem Conner
Ford
General Hospital
Rifles
Barnard
Ariah
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