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A REPLY TO LORD STRANGFORD’S “OBSERVATIONS” ON SOME PASSAGES IN COLONEL NAPIER’S HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PENINSULA. BY COLONEL NAPIER, C.B. Second Edition, 8vo. price 1s.

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COL. NAPIER’S JUSTIFICATION OF HIS THIRD VOLUME, FORMING A SEQUEL TO HIS REPLY TO VARIOUS OPPONENTS, AND CONTAINING SOME NEW AND CURIOUS FACTS RELATIVE TO THE BATTLE OF ALBUERA. 8vo. price 1s. 6d.

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COUNTER-REMARKS TO MR. DUDLEY MONTAGU PERCEVAL’S REMARKS UPON SOME PASSAGES IN COLONEL NAPIER’S FOURTH VOLUME OF HIS HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. In 8vo. price 1s. 6d.

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SKETCHES IN SPAIN, During the Years 1829-30-31 and 32; Containing Notices of some Districts very little known; of the Manners of the People, Government, Recent Changes, Commerce, Fine Arts, and Natural History. BY CAPTAIN S. E. COOK, R.N. K.T.S. F.G.S. Two vol. 8vo. price 21s.

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THE HISTORY OF THE KING’S GERMAN LEGION, FROM THE PERIOD OF ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1803, TO THAT OF ITS DISSOLUTION IN 1816. Compiled from Manuscript Documents. By N. LUDLOW BEAMISH, Esq. F.R.S. late Major unattached. Vol. I. 8vo. with coloured plates; price 20s. boards; to be completed in two volumes.

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In the Press, THE CAMPAIGNS OF DON PEDRO IN PORTUGAL, From the Landing of the Constitutional Army to the Convention of Evora Monte, and subsequent Disbanding of the Armies. By GENERAL ANTHONY BACON.

Immediately will be Published, in one vol. 8vo. THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN JOHN PATTERSON, OF THE 50th, OR QUEEN’S OWN REGIMENT. With Notices of the Officers and of the Regiment from 1807 to 1821.