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Excerpt from Memoirs of George Elers, Captain in the 12th Regiment of Foot (1777-1842): To Which Are Added Correspondence and Other Papers With Genealogy and Notes The MS. of these Memoirs of Captain George Elers, of the 12th Regiment of Foot, was found in the library at Burton Hall by my relative, Mr. George Leveson Gower, to whom I am also indebted for his assistance in preparing this volume for publication; and as they seemed to me to present a truthful and interesting picture of life in society and in the Army at the end of the eighteenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, I decided on publishing them. Captain Elers had renewed early in 1841 his acquaintance with my grandfather, the sixth Lord Monson (then Mr. William Monson), with whom he was connected through the family of Debonnaire. My grandfather, who succeeded to the title by the death of his cousin in October of that year, subsequently rendered certain services to Captain Elers. Captain Elers died at St. Heliers, in Jersey, in January, 1842, from a stroke of apoplexy, having appointed Lord Monson his heir and executor; but the inheritance was not a profitable one, as practically his sole means of subsistence was a trifling annuity from his cousin, Mrs. Tennant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.