xii PREFACE TO SECOND SECTION 
to contain also a few Extracts made from the 
posthumous Papers of the late Lieutenant- 
colonel JoH.Y Squire, of the corps of Royal 
Engineers ; who met with a melancholy fate, in 
the service of his country, at Truxillo in Spain, 
in the thirty-third year of his age. The death 
of Colonel Squire was owing to a fever 
occasioned by excessive fatigue at the siege of 
Badajoz. Never was the loss of any officer 
more deeply and sincerely lamented by his 
friends and fellow-soldiers. To be employed in 
fighting the battles of his country was his ruling- 
passion ; and in fighting them he had been 
nobly engaged for the last thirteen years of his 
life. During that space of time, he served on 
the several expeditions to the Helder, to Egypt, 
to South America, to Sweden, under Sir J. Moore, 
to Portugal and Spain, under the same general, 
to Zealand, and a second time to the Spanish 
Peninsida, where he terminated his honourable 
career. The active mind of Colonel Squire 
did not content itself with the acquirements 
proper to his profession only, but was impelled 
by a large and liberal curiosity to obtain every 
sort of useful or of interestino- knowled£];-e. In 
all the countries which he visited, he kept a full 
and accurate journal, not only of military affairs, 
but of everv thing else either curioii? or 
