Adventures with the Dirty Half Hundred-the Peninsular War Reminiscences of an Officer of H. M. 50th Regiment of Foot by John Patterson

Adventures with the Dirty Half Hundred-the Peninsular War Reminiscences of an Officer of H. M. 50th Regiment of Foot

John Patterson

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Life inside Wellington's 'Old Peninsula Army' The 'Dirty Half Hundred'-the 50th-won their nickname not from a propensity for unsanitary habits, but from their black facing colour on cuffs and collars which would, when rubbed onto sweating faces, t...

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