Younger readers can get a first-hand look at the battlefield action of the Peninsular War in this historical action-adventure novel from George Manville Fenn. Young soldier Penton Gray sustains a serious wound, but displays admirable grace under fire by risking his own life to rescue an injured comrade. Will the pair safely make it back to their regiment?

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- Title
- Contents
- Chapter One - To Save a Comrade
- Chapter Two - Poor Punch
- Chapter Three - Where the Wolves Howl
- Chapter Four - "Water, or I Shall Die!"
- Chapter Five - Hard Work
- Chapter Six - Pen's Patient
- Chapter Seven - More About Him
- Chapter Eight - The King's Shilling
- Chapter Nine - How to Treat an Enemy
- Chapter Ten - Talking in His Sleep
- Chapter Eleven - Punch's Commissariat
- Chapter Twelve - A Rustle Among the Trees
- Chapter Thirteen - "Look Out, Comrade!"
- Chapter Fourteen - Punch Will Talk
- Chapter Fifteen - Juan's Revenge
- Chapter Sixteen - Prisoners
- Chapter Seventeen - In Misery
- Chapter Eighteen - War's Horrors
- Chapter Nineteen - Another Breakdown
- Chapter Twenty - Hunted
- Chapter Twenty One - Hide-And-Seek
- Chapter Twenty Two - "Unlucky Beggars"
- Chapter Twenty Three - The Use of Latin
- Chapter Twenty Four - Through a Knot-Hole
- Chapter Twenty Five - In the Night
- Chapter Twenty Six - Contrabandistas
- Chapter Twenty Seven - The New Friend
- Chapter Twenty Eight - Punch Proves Sturdy
- Chapter Twenty Nine - The Royal Visitor
- Chapter Thirty - An Awkward Position
- Chapter Thirty One - A Dream of a Ramrod
- Chapter Thirty Two - A Cavernous Breakfast
- Chapter Thirty Three - At Bay
- Chapter Thirty Four - Keeping the Bridge
- Chapter Thirty Five - For the King
- Chapter Thirty Six - In the Rout
- Chapter Thirty Seven - After "Wiggling"
- Chapter Thirty Eight - "Hear That?"
- Chapter Thirty Nine - Strung-Up
- Chapter Forty - Friends or Foes?
- Chapter Forty One - Boots or Booty?
- Chapter Forty Two - Friend and Enemy
- Chapter Forty Three - Fresh Comrades
- Chapter Forty Four - Before the Aquiline
- Chapter Forty Five - No More Bugling