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OF 
JAMPAIGNS IN THE PENINSULA, 
FOR THE YEARS 1811, 12, AND 43, 
BY 
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM SWABEY, 
AN OFFICER OF 
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(PRESENT ‘“‘E” BatrERy), 
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY. 
EDITED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHINYATHS, late R.H.A. 
INTRODUCTION. 
TuE favourable reception accorded to the recently published “Diary of a 
Cavalry Officer,” induces the belief that the narrative of his services during the 
- campaign in the Peninsula, under Lord Wellington, by Lieutenant W. Swabey, 
Royal Horse Artillery, may be found equally instructive and entertaining. 
Through the kindness of Lady Bowman, daughter of Lieutenant Swabey, who 
served in “EH” Troop from 1807 to 1820, I have been lent and authorised to 
arrange for publication, the diary kept by her father during a portion of his ser- 
vice in the Peninsula. It embraces the period between July, 1811, and August, 
1813. 
Lieutenant Swabey, in after years, appears to have written his reminiscences of 
some of the events in which he was concerned, adding amusing accounts of 
adventures not touched on in his diary ; I have introduced these in their chrono- 
logical order, placing them between brackets, so that the recollections of later 
years may not be confused with the daily record. 
For the better comprehension of the narrative, I have divided it into separate 
parts and chapters, prefacing each part with a brief outline of the general military 
situation at the time, as gathered from the Wellington despatches, Napier’s history, 
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