Samuel Rice--Birth and parentage--Education--Sent to St Omer in 1792--French Revolution--Preparations for war--French hussars and their moustaches--Massacre of aristocrats--Expulsion of Jesuits--Founding of Stoneyhurst College--Duke of Brunswick's manifesto--Citizen Rice--French victories over Prussians and Austrians--Troublous times--Rice returns to England 1 Rice joins the army--How commissions were obtained--The Purchase System--Officer's pay--Dress of officers--On board a transport--Disorder among the troops--Courts-martial-- Flogging--Many false starts--Gibraltar--_Sans culottes_-- Affairs at Toulon at the end of 1793--The 51st proceeds on active service--Evacuation of Toulon--Loss of …
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