Author: Ferdinand Whittingham

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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9781331098706

Excerpt from A Memoir of the Services of Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Ford Whittingham: Colonel of the 71st Highland Light Infantry; Derived Chiefly From His Own Letters and From Those of Distinguished Contemporaries The errors and imperfections contained in the first edition of this work, occasioned its speedy suppression, in order to substitute for it the revised, and, as the Editor trusts, considerably improved volume now offered to the public. His best thanks are assuredly due to those critics who have already noticed the work; because, as may be seen at the end of the Appendix, they have amply justified the opinion which he had long entertained, that the services of Sir Samford Whittingham required only to be better known in order to be fully appreciated by his generous countrymen. Of those services the Editor hopes that the present volume is more worthy than its predecessor of becoming the permanent record. It is only necessary to add that the engraving in this edition is a great improvement on the preceding one, and now does full justice to the portrait from which it was taken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.