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A veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellingtons army. But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his ...

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Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellingtons army. But at the siege of Badajos, his ...