The Young Buglers

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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Flis, and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE YOUNG BUGLERS
by G.A. HentyPREFACE
To my Young Readers.
I remember that, as a boy, I regarded any attempt
to mix instruction with amusement as being as
objectionable a practice as the administration of
powder in jam; but I think that this feeling arose
from the fact that in those days books contained a
very small share of amusement and a very large
share of instruction. I have endeavored to avoid
this, and I hope that the accounts of battles and
sieges, illustrated as they are by maps, will be
found as interesting as the lighter parts of the
story. As in my tale, "The Young Franc-Tireurs," I
gave the outline of the Franco-German war, so I
have now endeavored to give the salient features
of the great Peninsular struggle. The military facts,
with the names of generals and regiments, the
dates and places, are all strictly accurate, and any
one who has read with care the story of "The
Young Buglers" could pass an examination as to
the leading events of the Peninsular war.
Yours truly,
THE AUTHOR.CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A Coaching Adventure
CHAPTER II. The Young Pickles
CHAPTER III. Enlisted
CHAPTER IV. A Tough Customer
CHAPTER V. Overboard
CHAPTER VI. Portugal
CHAPTER VII. The Passage of the Douro—
Talavera
CHAPTER VIII. A Pause in Operations
CHAPTER IX. "With the Guerillas"
CHAPTER X. Madrid
CHAPTER XI. The Fight on the Coa
CHAPTER XII. Busaco and Torres VedrasCHAPTER XIII. Albuera
CHAPTER XIV. Invalided Home
CHAPTER XV. Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos
CHAPTER XVI. Salamanca
CHAPTER XVII. Caught in a Trap
CHAPTER XVIII. Just in Time
CHAPTER XIX. Vittoria
CHAPTER XX. ToulouseTHE YOUNG BUGLERS.CHAPTER I.
A COACHING ADVENTURE.
Had any of the boys in the lower forms of Eton in
the year 1808, been asked who were the most
popular boys of their own age, they would have
been almost sure to have answered, without the
slightest hesitation, Tom and Peter Scudamore,
and yet it is probable that no two boys were more
often in disgrace. It was not that they were idle,
upon the contrary, both were fairly up in their
respective forms, but they were constantly getting
into mischief of one sort or another; yet even with
the masters they were favorites, there was never
anything low, disgraceful, or ungentlemanly in their
escapades, and they could be trusted never to
attempt to screen themselves from the
consequences by prevarication, much less by lying.
If the masters heard that a party of youngsters had
been seen far out of bounds, they were pretty sure
that the Scudamores were among them; a farmer
came in from a distance to complain that his
favorite tree had been stripped of its apples—for in
those days apples were looked upon by boys as
fair objects of sport,—if the head-master's favorite
white poodle appeared dyed a deep blue, if Mr.
Jones, the most unpopular master in the school,
upon coming out of his door trod upon a quantity of
tallow smeared all over the doorstep, and was laid
up for a week in consequence, there was generally