Chesterton, George Laval:

$400 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

PEACE, WAR, AND ADVENTURE, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF.... Remainder issue. One of the rarest British accounts of the Battle of New Orleans, and a book difficult to obtain in any condition. The author saw much American service in the War of 1812, having been present at the burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and in the Caribbean. He also served in the Peninsular War, and for four years, until 1820, in the revolutionary wars in Venezuela and Colombia.

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