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JOSEPHA Martín – The daughter of a wealthy local landowner, Josepha is betrothed to El Charro, and is looking for a way to avoid the match.

 

Captain MORILLO
– A grenadier officer from the Princesa Regiment of Infantry, Morillo is sent to Fort La Concepción to cooperate with MacAndrews.

 

Lieutenant DOLOSA
– An officer of the Princesa Regiment, Dolosa is capable but suffering the strain of surviving too many costly defeats.

 

Corporal GOMEZ
– A Spanish NCO sent to Fort La Concepción.

 

Sergeant RODRIGUEZ
– A Spanish NCO sent to Fort La Concepción who travels with the company of recruits sent to Ciudad Rodrigo under Pringle and Williams.

 

Adrian Goldsworthy is the acclaimed author of
The Roman Army at War
,
Roman Warfare
,
The Punic Wars
,
Cannae
,
In the Name of Rome
,
Caesar: The Life of a Colossus
,
The Fall of the West
and
Antony and Cleopatra
. He Studied at St John’s College, Oxford, and taught at a number of universities before becoming a fulltime author. He regularly contributes to TV documentaries on Roman themes. Alongside his interest in the ancient world, he has always been fascinated by the world of Napoleon and Wellington, and the stories of their armies.
All in Scarlet Uniform
is the fourth novel in a series following the fortunes of a group of British soldiers in the fight against Napoleon.

By Adrian Goldsworthy
 

FICTION

 

All in Scarlet Uniform

 

Send Me Safely Back Again

 

Beat the Drums Slowly

 

True Soldier Gentlemen

 

NON-FICTION

 

Antony and Cleopatra

 

The Fall of the West: The Death of the Roman Superpower

 

Caesar: The Life of a Colossus

 

In the Name of Rome:

 

The Men Who Won the Roman Empire

 

The Complete Roman Army

 

Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory

 

The Punic Wars

 

Roman Warfare

 

The Roman Army at War, 100
BC-AD
200

 
 

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Copyright
 

A Phoenix ebook

 

First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Ebook first published in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

This ebook published in 2014 by Phoenix

 

© Adrian Goldsworthy 2013

 

The right of Adrian Goldsworthy to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

 

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

 

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

 

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

 

ISBN: 978-0-2978-6668-8

 

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