Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsergean00bour Adrien Jean Baptiste Francois Bourgogne was the son of a cloth-merchant of Conde-sur-Escaut (Nord). He reached his twentieth year on November 12th, 1805, a time when military glory was the one dream of youth. To make this dream real, his father procured his admission into a corps of the Velites of the Guard, where a fixed income was a necessary qualification.…
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