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Chapter 4: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

Soldiers, and Brother Soldiers, doubly dear,The time will come we meet no longer here;No more is heard the thund’ring cannon’s roar;Calpe is silent; Echo says no more;No more terrific to Iberia now,Yet scournful frowns with dark unalter’d brow;Her harden’d front at rest from fruitless rage,Whilst Hist’ry plants her in the choicest page. Capt. Joseph BadworthHalf-PayTheContinue reading “Chapter 4: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”

Chapter 3: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

Here, mighty Nature!—in this school sublimeI weigh the hopes and fears of suffering Spain:For her consult the auguries of time,And through the human heart explore my way, And look and listen,—gathering where I may Triumph, and thoughts no bondage can restrain. William Wordsworth 1808 Composed while the author was engaged in writinga tract, occasioned byContinue reading “Chapter 3: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”

Chapter 2: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

O thou seducer of the human mind,Thou bane of millions, and thou bliss of none,Ambition! restless tyrant of mankind,No knee bend I before thy bloodstain’d throne. “Leo” The Gentleman’s Magazine, LXXVII (March 1807), p. 25 Ah sleep, once a thing I fought to stave off as a young man as “Life’s to short to wasteContinue reading “Chapter 2: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”

Chapter 1: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.

Author – Ben Ebrahim “Hail! — all hail! The Patriot’s grave, Valor’s venerable bed! Hail! The memory of the brave, Hail! The spirits of the dead!”Montgomery My time in Spain began attached to a small force under the command of one Henry Blount of the 95th Rifles. A new experimental skirmish force using the nowContinue reading “Chapter 1: The recollections of Mr John Ryder of the Sussex Echo.”