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Within the history of Patrick O'Brian's precious historic military activities comes the very first in a running new sequence offering Cornet Matthew Hervey, a cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815.   A Detailed Work ThingFor 2 decades, because the French Revolution, England and her associates have struggled a seemingly endless battle to release Bonaparte's stranglehold on Europe. Matthew Hervey, a twenty-three-year-old parson's daughter, has grown through the ranks of His Majesty's cavalry to some jr order within the 6th Light Dragoons. Split by goal and trapped in the intrigues of Wellington's military, Matthew challenges to form his future, but his initiatives are going to be cast to the winds of fortune. For amid the clash of armies, he'll find himself a driver in the fight of the millennium,close to the little Belgian town of Waterloo.