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Title: Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

Author: Rees Howell Gronow

Posting Date: May 19, 2009 [EBook #3798]
Release Date: February, 2003
First Posted: September 13, 2001

Language: English

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Produced by Tobias D. Robison and Pam Wisniewski. HTML
version by Al Haines.

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

by

Captain Rees Howell Gronow

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

The spelling in this book is rather creative (including the occasional spelling of "ankle" as "ancle"), and the

punctuation is remarkably varied. I have tried to preserve both, except that the spaces between a word and the
following colon or semicolon have been removed. There are also many French words and phrases, whose meaning will
usually be obvious as soon as you realise they are French. Of course I apologize for any genuine errors in spelling and
punctuation that have crept into this file.

Captain Gronow is an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars

with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs. This file covers the first half of what he
published. Search the web for "Captain Gronow" to learn more about this interesting gentleman.

The text is arranged as a series of topics, each with a title in capital letters. Sometimes there is continuity in this

arrangement, sometimes there is not. There is no other structure to the text.

I have used the character for "pounds" (money) in this text: '£'. If the character in single quotes does not look like a

pound sign to you, well, at least you know what is intended. The book text uses a lower case 'l' for this purpose, but in
computer fonts the 'l', looking just like a '1' when following a string of digits, is confusing.

Many thanks to Pam Wisniewski for proofreading this text.

—Tobias D. Robison, September, 2001